Mogg v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
August 1939
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stone v. State of South Carolina · Illinois Central Ry. Co. v. Sheegog's Admr. · Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Banks' Admr.
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.
““Courts in the construction of contracts look to the language employed, the subject matter and the surrounding circumstances. They are never shut out from the samé light which the parties enjoyed when the contract was executed and accordingly they are entitled to place themselves in the same situation as the parties who made, the contract so as to view' the circumstances as they viewed them and so as to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the thing's described."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.