Steele v. Schricker’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1941
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Oral conversations had between the parties to a written contract cannot be received as explanatory of the writing. Such conversations do not come within the rule that ‘you may show the facts surrounding the parties at the time, and the situation in which they were placed, in order to interpret the meaning of what they said in their contract.’ . . . ‘Evidence which is calculated to explain the subject of an instrument is essentially different in its character from evidence of verbal communications respecting it.’ ””
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.