Adkins v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.2d 489 · 1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1988
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Freeport Sulphur Co. v. American Sulphur Royalty Co. · Poe v. Ulrey · Cowden v. Broderick & Calvert, Inc. · Daughetee v. Ohio Oil Co. · Walker v. Brown
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intention of the parties is to be ascertained from the entire instrument and not from detached portions, it being necessary to construe all its parts in order to determine the meaning of any particular part as well as of the whole.””
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.