Bell v. Engvolsen’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
September 1914
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brownlee v. Arnold · Muzzy v. Knight · Meyer v. Graeber · Seieroe v. First National Bank · Hennessy v. Gore
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a note is made and a contemporaneous writing is executed to secure or qualify it, the two instruments, when not conflicting, will be construed together so that effect may be given to both. The purpose of the court is to gather the intent of the parties, not from the one writing, but from all of them.” (The italics are ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lovell v. Musselman
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.