Simmons v. . Groom’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2019
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words employed, if capable of more than one meaning, are to be given that meaning which it is apparent the parties intended them to have.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Paige, sec. 1105. And further, in section 1106 it is said that the context and subject-matter may affect the meaning of the words of a contract, especially if in connection with the subject-matter the ordinary meaning of the term would give an absurd result. Again, as said by Woods, J ., in Merriam v. United States , 107 U.S. 441 ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. R. R. v. . R. R.“In such contracts it is a fundamental rule of construction that the courts may look to not only the language employed, but to the subject-matter and surrounding circumstances. and may avail themselves of the same light which the parties possessed when the contract was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. R. R. v. . R. R.
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.