Casriel v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer (1953), Tessmar v. Grosner (1957)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 Stewart v. Finkelstone · 141 N.J. Eq. 379 - Mantell v. International Plastic Harmonica Corp. · Corn Exchange National Bank & Trust Co., Philadelphia v. Taubel · New York Sash & Door Co. v. National House & Farms Ass'n · Lounsbery v. Locander
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admission of evidence of extrinsic facts is not for the purpose of changing the writing, but to secure light by which to measure its actual significance. Such evidence is adducible only for the purpose of interpreting the writing not for the purpose of modifying or enlarging or curtailing its terms, but to aid in determining the meaning of what has been said.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In short, we are to consider what was written in the light of the circumstances under which it was written, and give to the language a rational meaning consistent with the expressed general purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at variance with any meaning that can be attached to the 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.