Slaughter v. Smither’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Nelson v. Commonwealth (1988), Bolling v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1963)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 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 Naumberg v. Young · Towner v. Lucas' ex'or · Citizens National Bank v. Walton · Martin's Ex'x v. Lewis' Ex'or
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where parties have deliberately put their mutual engagements into writing, in such language as imports a legal obligation it is only reasonable to presume that they have introduced into the written instrument every material term and circumstance; and consequently all parol testimony of conversations held between them, or declarations made by either of them, whether before, after, or at the time of the completion of the contract, will be rejected. If the written contract purports to contain the whole agreement, and it is not apparent from the writing itself that something is left out to be supplied, parol evidence to vary or add to its terms is not admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.