Apple v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Bullock v. Young (1933), Farmers Bank & Trust Co. of Georgetown v. Willmott Hardwoods, Inc. (2005)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Coker v. Richey · Crawford v. M. Livingston & Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is competent to vary the date of, or time for performance of, a contract, by contemporaneous parol extrinsic testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The consideration of any writing, with or without seal, may be impeached or denied 'by pleading verified by oath.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sadler v. Carpenter
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.