Harker v. McKissock’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Crescent Pk. Tenants Assoc. v. Realty Eq. Corp. of NY (1971), 78 N.J. Super. 485 - Garden State Plaza Corp. v. SS Kresge Co. (1963)
2 district · 21 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 Swift Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company · Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer · Pickett v. Walsh · Moffat Tunnel League v. United States · Naumberg v. Young
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as the [extrinsic] evidence tends to show, not the meaning of the writing, but an intention wholly unexpressed in the writing, it is irrelevant.””
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.