14 E.H. Smith 291 - Sattler v. . Hallock’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 1970 · most notably Hanover National Bank of New York v. Suddath (1909), Wm. H. Wise & Co. v. Rand McNally & Company (1961)
2 federal appellate · 30 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSattler v. Hallock
Relationships
Relies on Insurance Company v. Dutcher · Stewart v. . Stone · Woolsey v. . Funke · Mack v. . Snell · Hyde & Everit v. Cookson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is always the duty of a court, in construing a written instrument, if possible, to ascertain the intention of the parties; and in order to determine its proper construction resort must be had to the instrument as a whole, and effect must be given to every clause and part thereof when it can be done without violence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.