Minge v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably McMillan v. Aiken (1920), Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Co. v. City of Huntsville (1963)
85 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 Sternberger v. . McGovern · Gordon, Rankin & Co. v. Tweedy · Meyer Bros. v. Mitchell · Baucum v. George · Homan v. Stewart
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule we have adopted commends itself for its conservatism and justice. Howsoever vulnerable it may be ‘to the attack of technical and refined principles of law upon the subject of ambiguous writings, we are not so well satisfied that it is unwise as to be disposed to depart from it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Karter v. East
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.