Sawert v. Lunt’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1976
13 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 Suchan Et Ux. v. Swope · Henry v. Black · Shaw v. Cornman · Smith & Fleek's Appeal · Ranney v. Byers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[P]arol evidence to describe the land intended to be sold is one thing, (and hence is inadmissible) and parol evidence to apply a written description to land is another and very different thing, and for that purpose is admissible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierro v. Pierro
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.