Miles v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably Jones v. Preuit & Mauldin (1985), 435 So. 2d 716 - Jehle-Slauson Const. Co. v. Hood-Rich Architects and Consulting Engineers (1983)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Wright v. McCord · Barbour v. Poncelor · St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Cauthen · Gravlee v. Lamkin
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will be given effect according to the intention of the parties to be judged by the court from what appears within the four corners of the instrument itself, and parol evidence is not admissible to impeach it or vary its terms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This rule is sustained by a wealth of authority, and by sound reason. See note, 48 A.L.R. pp. 1464-1470.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boles v. Blackstock“in full and complete settlement of any and all claims . . . on account of such injuries. . . .”
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.