Mitchell v. Merriam’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 42 · 1951
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2016
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Baker v. National Savings & Trust Co. · George Washington University v. Riggs Nat. Bank of Washington · Association of Survivors of Seventh Georgia Regiment v. Larner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Distinctions between 'latent' and 'patent' ambiguities are arbitrary and outmoded.”). We therefore need not decide whether any ambiguities in the documents at issue were latent or patent. . The parties dispute whether the purchase agreement in this case was a sale”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ompetent extrinsic evidence should be received whenever it tends to show what a testator meant by ambiguous words.”
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.