Duplex Envelope Co. v. Baltimore Post Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Taylor v. NationsBank, N.A. (2001), I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros. (1975)
6 district · 31 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 Abbott v. Gatch · John Cowan, Inc. v. Meyer · Read Drug & Chemical Co. v. Nattans · Taylor v. Turley · Equitable Endowment Ass'n v. Fisher
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.
“The law is well settled, that contracts are to be interpreted and enforced, according to the fair import of their terms, without reference to the hardships that may fall on the parties.”
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.