Gates v. . McKee’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Hendrick v. Lindsay (1876), 2 E.H. Smith 241 - Smith v. . Molleson (1896)
38 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the language used be ambiguous and admits of two fair interpretations, and the guarantee has advanced his money upon the faith of the interpretation most favorable to his rights, that interpretation shall prevail in his favor; for it does not lie in the mouth of the guarantor to say that he may, without peril, scatter ambiguous words by which the other party is misled to his injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weill v. Hecht
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.