Spaulding v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 1928
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spaulding Mfg. Co. v. Holiday · Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance v. T. M. Richardson Lumber Co. · Early v. King · Burgess v. Felix · Spaulding Mfg. Co. v. Cooksey
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both the statute and the common law prohibit the introduction of evidence of prior or contemporaneous oral negotiations or statements to contradict or vary the terms of a written agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swain v. Patterson
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.