Jones v. . Casstevens’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Gould Morris Electric Co. v. Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. (1948), State v. Philip Morris USA Inc. (2009)
2 federal appellate · 53 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Since the object of construction is to ascertain the intent of the parties, the contract must be considered as an entirety. The problem is not what the separate parts mean, but what the contract means when considered as a whole.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are plain and unambiguous, there is no room for construction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well recognized that the object of all rules of interpretation is to arrive at the intention of the parties as expressed in the contract....”
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.