Kane v. . Cortesy’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1927
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parol evidence as to the agreement for the extension of time does not come under the ban of the rule which prohibits parol evidence to explain, vary, or contradict written instruments. It does not contradict or vary the real estate mortgage. That was past due, and the time for its payment could be extended by any valid agreement. It does not contradict the chattel mortgage. That is complete in itself, and was not intended to embody the agreement. Its sole purpose was to give the additional security. This was an independent agreement existing outside of the two mortgages. It was the occasion or condition inducing the giving of the chattel mortgage, and no rule of evidence was violated in allowing it to be proved by parol.””
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.