Cunningham v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
116 F. 803 · 1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Washington Gas Light Co. v. Lansden · Phillips and Colby Construction Company v. Seymour et al. · Hansen v. Boyd · Post Pub. Co. v. Hallam · Gifford v. People
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•When antecedent words are capable, as a matter of law, of being understood in more than one sense, it is tile office of an innuendo to designate that meaning which the plaintiff proposes to establish as the meaning intended by the defendant and understood by those who heard or read them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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