Lynn v. Herman’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1976
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Blethen v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance · Trimble v. Trimble · P. A. Smith Co. v. Muller · Mundt v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. · Britton v. Bryson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Oral evidence is competent to prove that a purported promissory note or written contract was executed as a mere artifice affecting the relationship or conduct of the parties thereto, and that it was not the intention of the parties that it should become binding upon them. Under such circumstances the reception of oral evidence does not have the effect of varying the terms of the written instrument, but rather tends to prove the invalidity of the challenged document. (P. A. Smith Co. v. Muller, 201 Cal. 219 [ 256 P. 411, 412 ] ; Texas Co. v. Berry Garage, 121 Cal.App. 455 [ 9 P.2d 241 ]; Gleeson v. Bunn, 113 Cal.App. 347 [ 298 P. 119 ]; Allen’s Collection Agency v. Lee, 73 Cal.App. 68 [ 238 P. 169 ]; sec. 3097, Civ. Code).’ ””
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.