Marcus v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Sturman v. Socha (1983), Barnard v. Barnard (1990)
2 district · 91 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 Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · Cecio Bros., Inc. v. Feldmann · Sturtevant v. Sturtevant · Beach v. Beach · New Haven Sand Blast Co. v. Dreisbach
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntent . . . is to be ascertained by a fair and reasonable construction of the written words and . . . the language used must be accorded its common, natural, and ordinary meaning and usage where it can be sensibly applied to the subject matter of the contract.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The words used by the parties' must be accorded their common meaning and usage where they can be sensibly applied to the subject matter of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder this statute, interest ordinarily begins to run from the time when the money was due and payable.”
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.