Holmes v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1958 · most notably Stone v. Spencer (1920), Packard Oklahoma Motor Co. v. Funk (1925)
28 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 Seitz v. Brewers' Refrigerating Machine Co. · Thomas v. . Scutt · Chapin v. . Dobson · Eighmie v. . Taylor · McNinch v. Northwest Thresher 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the writing does not purport to disclose the complete, contract, or if. when read in the light of attendant facts and circumstances, it is apparent that it contains only a part of the agreement entered into by the parties, parol evidence is admissible to show what the rest of the agreement was; but such parol evidence must not be inconsistent with or repugnant to the intention of the parties as shown by the written instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Spencer““Also where a party complains of instructions given or refused, he shall set out in totidem verbis in his brief separately the portions to which he objects or may save exceptions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gower v. Short
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.