Boyle v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1989
23 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 Young Mines Co., Ltd. v. Citizens' State Bk. · Jones v. Shaw · Griffith v. State of Arizona · Bertozzi v. Luigi Collaso · State Ex Rel. La Prade v. Smith
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.
““ * * * There are some cases that, for one reason or .another, have permitted oral evidence of contemporaneous agreements with the execution and delivery of promissory notes, but we think the great majority of the courts hold that an unconditional promise to pay a definite sum at a time certain may not be varied or contradicted by oral evidence; that the extent to which such evidence may be used is to show that there was no consideration or a failure of consideration for the promise, or that the instrument containing the promise was not unconditionally delivered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fusco v. Kellogg
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.