Norris v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1972
12 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 Davis v. Shields · In re Trustees of the First Baptist Church v. Bigelow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In cases of sales, the credit stipulated is an essential term of the contract, and must appear in the memorandum.’ . . . ‘As to the question what the written agreement must contain, the general answer is, all that belongs essentially to the agreement, and more than this is not needed; nor can parol evidence be received to supply anything which is wanting in the writing, to make it the written agreement on which the parties rely.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. Whitham
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.