Clarkson v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 505 · 1882
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1992 · most notably Title Guaranty Trust Company v. Crane Company (1910), United States v. Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. (1910)
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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 Andrews v. . Durant · Moody v. Brown · Elliott v. Edwards · Sandford v. Wiggins Ferry 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts of this country have not adopted any arbitrary rule of construction as controlling such agreements, but consider the question of intent, open in every case, to be determined upon the terms of the contract, and the circumstances attending the transaction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““For the inference is obvious, from the particularity of such a provision, that the larger interest would not be left to mere intendment.””
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.