Kintner v. Harr’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Trustees of Indiana University v. Buxbaum (2003), Rumph v. Dale Edwards, Inc. (1979)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co. · Merriam v. United States · People v. Weiss · Peiser v. Mettler · People v. Klopstock
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a fundamental rule that in the construction of contracts the courts may look not only to the language employed, but to the subject-matter and the surrounding circumstances, and may avail themselves of the same light which the parties possessed when the contract was made. To ascertain that intention, regard must be had to the nature of the instrument itself, the condition of the parties executing it, and the objects which they had in view.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule is well established that real covenants create in the covenantor a contractual duty which cannot be escaped simply by transferring property to another. The question of continupng] liability of the covenantor after the assignment turns upon the express or presumed intention of the parties to the contract. In the absence of an express provision, their intention must be determined from the language of the entire contract, giving due consideration to the surrounding circumstances.” 408 P.2d at 496-97 .”
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.