Hutchinson v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ad Two, Inc. v. City & County of Denver (2000), 32 Colo. App. 320 - Bator v. Mines Development, Inc. (1973)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Davis v. Schwartz · Yamin v. Levine · Brunton v. International Trust Co. · Oriental Refining Co. v. Hallenbeck · Stewart v. Public Industrial Bank
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.
“(a) The court in which any action is pending may appoint a master therein.... [[Image here]] (e)(1) The master shall prepare a report upon the matters submitted to him by the order of reference and, if required to make findings of fact and conclusions of law, he shall set them forth in the report. ... [[Image here]] (e)(2) In an action to be tried without a jury the court shall accept the master’s finding of fact unless clearly erroneous. Within ten days after being served with notice of the filing of the report any party may serve written objections thereto upon the other parties.... The court, after hearing, may adopt the report or may modify it or may reject it in whole or in part or may receive further evidence or may recommit it with instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The general rule] . to be found in the authorities [is] that courts should give ef-feet to the general purposes of a contract. Courts make due allowance for a common human failing, that of being careless in choosing words. We should not allow inept expressions to defeat the evident intentions of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An interpretation which makes the contract or agreement fair and reasonable will be preferred to one which leads to a harsh or unreasonable result.””
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.