Forsythe v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 291 · 1875
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1996 · most notably Burke v. Dulaney (1894), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Specht v. Howard
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a firmly settled principle that parol evidence of an oral agreement, alleged to have been made at the time of the drawing, making, or indorsing of a bill or note, cannot be permitted to vary, qualify, or contradict, or add to or subtract from, the absolute terms of the written contract.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Cole · Harmon v. Harmon“in the absence of fraud, accident or mistake, the rule is the same in equity as at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. Allen
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.