Eggers v. Eggers’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably Ducheneaux v. Miller (1992), Ralph E. Mueller and Eugene D. Devane, Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Hubbard Milling Company, Appellant-Cross-Appellee (1978)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Baker v. Jewell · Kindley v. Williams · Moncur v. Jones · McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Faulkner · Leach v. Leach
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Oral negotiations or agreements which preceded or accompanied the execution of a written contract may be employed to explain its uncertain expressions but, except where reformation is sought, not to contradict and nullify its express terms.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The execution of a contract in writing, whether the law requires it to be written or not, supersedes all the oral negotiations or stipulations concerning its matter which preceded or accompanied the execution of the instrument.””
2 later decisions 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.