96 Cal. App. 697 - Cline v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2013
9 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 A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. v. C. T. Patterson & Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended that this letter and the formal contract must be construed together as one instrument, ... It appears from the defendant’s testimony that the letter was a part of the negotiations preceding or accompanying the execution of the contract. In the absence of fraud or mistake, it was inadmissible as evidence of the terms of the contract, which were neither uncertain nor ambiguous. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . the writer will give you his word of honor that you need have no concern as to the termination of this contract without you are amply and amicably taken care of and I trust that this will allay your mind of any uneasiness with regard to being disturbed so long as you represent us faithfully as you have in the past. ...””
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.