Gunnels v. Jimmerson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Clark v. Albertville Nursing Home, Inc. (1989), 356 So. 2d 119 - Elba Wood Products, Inc. v. Brackin (1978)
29 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 Collier v. Brown · Eley v. Brunner-Lay Southern Corporation, Inc. · Decker v. Hays · Maxwell v. City of Birmingham · 42 Ill. App. 2d 438 - Graves v. Graves
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule of contract law is that when parties reduce their agreements to writing, the writing is the sole expositor of the transaction and the intention of the parties, in the absence of mistake or fraud or ambiguity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule of contract law is that, if a written contract exists, the rights of the parties are controlled by that contract, and parol evidence is not admissible to contradict, vary, add to, or subtract from its terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]ne who has executed a written contract in ignorance of its contents cannot set up that ignorance to avoid the obligation absent fraud or misrepresentation.”
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.