Drake v. Goree’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably 376 So. 2d 1083 - Seybold v. Magnolia Land Co. (1979), Elliott v. Howison (1906)
29 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 Watt's Ex'rs. v. Sheppard · Jennings v. Sherwood
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The contract may relate to the time required for the making of an article, the process of which is known only to those actually engaged in its manufacture ; to a thousand matters of art or skill, where truth is only to be attained through the medium of experts; and in cases of this character, is the court blindly to grope its way to conclusions, for no other reason than because the construction of a written instrument is involved, or to obtain through testimony that information upon which alone if can decide understandingly? Upon principle, as well as authority, we entertain no doubt that in all cases where a written contract, although complete in itself, contains a term which it is impossible for the court to construe, without the aid of evidence aliunde, it is proper to resort to such evidence for that purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Aikin
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.