Stein v. Archibald’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1958 · most notably Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co. (1947), 20 Cal. 2d 65 - Cohn v. Cohn (1942)
2 district · 24 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled principle applicable to the construction of contracts that where one construction would make the contract unreasonable, unfair, or unusual and extraordinary and another construction, equally consistent with the language, would make it reasonable, fair, and just, that the latter construction is the one which must be adopted.””
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.