Segari v. Uchello’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[1] We think the judge erred. The proposition of law upon which the ruling was based, however apparently emphatic, is not without well recognized exceptions, one of which is that the rule does not preclude the admission of a valid prior or contemporaneous agreement of a collateral nature, although it is related in a general sense to the written instrument in ■question, where it is independent of and not at variance with or contradictory to the express or implied provisions thereof, but instead has for its subject a matter which the parties might naturally deal with separately.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Succession of Johnson

2. ““The test of admissibility in such cases is whether the evidence offered tends to alter, vary, or contradict the written contract, or only to prove an independent, collateral fact about which the written contract was silent. In the former case the testimony is inadmissible; in the latter it is competent and proper. “ * * *» ******”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Succession of Johnson