Carr v. Benike, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2024
10 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 Kelly v. Miller · United States v. Schaeffer · Kindley v. Williams · Eggers v. Eggers · Christiansen v. Strand
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... well settled that parol evidence is inadmissible to vary, contradict or add to a contract which has been reduced to a writing that is clear, definite and complete, and in the absence of fraud, mistake or accident, it will be presumed that the written agreement expresses the final intention of the parties upon the subject matter of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that 'lessor covenants that the lessee, upon paying the rents and performing the covenants of this lease, shall peacefully and quietly have, hold and enjoy the rented premises for the term of this Lease.' " Id. (internal alteration omitted). The Carr court determined "[t]his statement constitutes an express covenant of quiet enjoyment[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The execution of a contract in writing, whether the law requires it to be written or not, supersedes all the oral negotiations or stipulations concerning its matter which preceded or accompanied the execution of ‘the instrument.”
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.