Baum v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A party is estopped by deed. He is not to be permitted to contradict it. So far as the deed is intended to pass a right, or to be the exclusive evidence of a contract, it concludes the parties to it. But the principle goes no further. 'A deed is not conclusive evidence of everything it may contain — for instance it is not the only evidence of the date of its execution, nor is its omission of a consideration conclusive evidence that none passed, nor is its acknowledgment of a paritcular consideration an objection to other proof of other and consistent considerations; and, by analogy the acknowledgment in a deed is not conclusive of the fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Flynt v. Garmon

2. ““(2) The existence of any separate oral agreement as. to any matter on which a document is silent and which is not inconsistent with its terms, if, from the circumstances of the case, the court infers that the parties did not intend the document to be a complete and final statement of the whole of the transaction between them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tallahatchie Compress & Storage Co. v. Hartshorn