Derrough v. Derrough’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No doubt there were negotiations leading up to the execution of the deed. There always have to he oral understanding before a contract can be reduced to writing, or no one would know what to write into the contract, but . when the agreement is finally reduced to writing and fully executed there is a presumption that all prior oral agreements are merged into and made a part of the written contract, and that any agreement not contained in the writing was not made or was abandoned before the execution of the written contract. If it were not for this presumption a written contract would have little value.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hogue v. Wilkinson