Walker v. Saricks’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Waldman v. Shoemaker (1951), Bardwell v. the Willis Company (1953)
75 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 Gianni v. Russell Co., Inc. · McCormack v. Jermyn · Martin & Monroe v. Berens · Irvin v. Irvin · Union Storage Co. ex rel. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Speck
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Grubb v. Rockey, 366 Pa. 592, 597 , 79 A. 2d 255 , we said: ‘The modern Pennsylvania Parol Evidence Rule is well stated by Mr. Justice Stearne in Walker v. Saricks, 360 Pa. 594, 598 , 63 A. 2d 9 : “This Court said in Gianni v. R. Russell & Co., Inc., 281 Pa. 320, 323 , 126 A. 791 : ‘Where parties, without any fraud or mistake, have deliberately put their engagements in writing, the law declares the writing to be not only the best, but the only, evidence of their agreement: [citing cases]. All preliminary negotiations, conversations and verbal agreements are merged in and superseded by the subsequent written contract. . . and unless fraud, accident or mistake be averred, the writing constitutes the agreement between the parties, and its terms cannot be added to nor subtracted from by parol evidence: [citing cases].’ ” ’ See also: O’Brien et al. v. O’Brien, supra; Bosker v. Lewis, 383 Pa. 507 , 119 A. 2d 67 ; Keleher v. LaSalle College, 394 Pa. 545 , 147 A. 2d 835 .””
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.