Hunt v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1976
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barrow v. J. W. Burbridge & Co. · Mack, Stadler & Co. v. Jacobs
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the duty of the court, in construing a contract, to place itself in the situation of the parties at the time the contract was made, and to ascertain their intention from the contract in the light of that situation, looking also to the subject matter of the contract ... 147 Miss. at 382 , 112 So. at 8 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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