Mintz v. Soule’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1942
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that such question is open to litigation, and the courts may so declare when the testimony impels to that conclusion. In passing upon the proof courts favor written evidence, rather than oral, but are required to consider together the writings, relations of the parties, surrounding facts and conditions generally, to arrive, if possible, at the real intent, understanding and agreement of the contracting parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rubenstine v. Powers
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.