Combs v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Malley v. American Indemnity Co. (1929), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Arghyris (1949)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 St Louis Dressed Beef Provision Company v. Maryland Casualty Company · Connolly v. Bolster · Sanders v. Frankfort Marine, Accident & Plate Glass Insurance · Patterson v. Adan · Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Martin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the court cannot read into the written instrument a stipulation it does not contain, nor can we give it a construction plainly in conflict with its expressed purport.””
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.