Torrey v. Simon-Torrey, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2015
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Di Cristina v. Weiser · Salley v. Louviere · Cary v. Richardson · Conklin v. Caffall · Davidson v. Midstates Oil Corporation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I see no reason to overrule these cases, which I believe to represent the better view: The policy of the code articles is designed only to prevent the use of parol evidence to take away title to immovables, or the use of parol evidence to confer title to immovables. It does not include within its compass any arbitrary prohibition of the use of parol evidence to prove independent later agreements, relating to mortgage notes or interest due thereupon."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allowing proof by parol evidence of a subsequent agreement to modify or to revoke a written agreement, is not applicable to a case in which the agreement is one required by law to be in writing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.