Dedier v. Grossman’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2016
3 federal appellate · 16 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 Citizens National Bank v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Freeport Sulphur Co. v. American Sulphur Royalty Co. · General American Indemnity Company v. Pepper · Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Powell · Myers v. Gulf Coast Minerals Management Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent fraud or mistake the court will not make a new contract for the parties or add to, modify, or change in any particular the agreement that they have made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. the parties of the first part [owner] hereby agree to pay to the party of the second part [plaintiff], at Grayson County State Bank, Sherman, Texas, the sum of Sixty-One Thousand Nine Hundred Ten and No/100 Dollars as follows: As evidenced by one (1) certain promissory note in the principal sum of said amount above stated, executed by parties of the first part [owner] and payable to party of the second part [plaintiff] and bearing interest at the rate of 6½ per cent per annum and payable on or before the 9th day of December, 1966, which said promissory note is incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof for all purposes .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The entire instrument, taken by its four corners, must be read and considered to determine the true intention of the parties.”
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.