Straub v. Screven’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2011
8 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 Kaphan v. Ryan · Oliver v. White
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e think the notes must be read as if the words erased had never been inserted, and when so read the contract falls within the general rule as to mortgages. Those words were not at all necessary to create a liability on the part of the defendant ..., and if he had desired to exempt himself from such liability he should have inserted in the contracts words of exemption, as contracts must be construed by the words which they contain, and not with reference to words omitted or erased.”
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.