McDown v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2005
20 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 Rockhill Tennis Club of Kansas City v. Volker · Missouri Cafeteria, Inc. v. McVey · Branner v. Klaber · Selle v. Selle · Waugh v. Williams
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if he finds that the parties intended the writing to be a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement {unless it be evidence of course of dealing, usage of trade, or course of performance introduced only to explain or supplement the writing). Code and comments both state that the question of completeness and exclusivity is for the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It may be noted here that an express provision therefor in the contract between the parties is necessary to accelerate the maturity of a bill or note.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Granger
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.