Smith v. . Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 1970 · most notably 14 E.H. Smith 549 - Gillet v. . Bank of America (1899), McKenzie v. . Harrison (1890)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Johnson v. . Oppenheim · Coe v. . Hobby · Doupe v. . Genin
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the construction of contracts it is the duty of the court to put itself, as near as may be, in the situation of the parties, and from a consideration of the surrounding circumstances, and the occasion and apparent object of the parties, determine therefrom the meaning and intent of the language employed in forming their agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Buel
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.