Jenkins v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Norlund v. Faust (1997), Oddie v. Ross Gear & Tool Co. (1962)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 65 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 Sherman v. Pfefferkorn · Western & Southern Life Insurance v. Vale · Walb Construction Co. v. Chipman · 114 Ind. App. 641 - International Shoe Co. v. Lacy · Grand Union Tea Company v. Walker
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of an ambiguity it is not within the function of the judiciary to look outside of the instrument to get at the intention of the parties. Their sole duty is to find out what was meant by the language of the instrument. In other words, the object to be attained in interpreting a contract is to ascertain the meaning and intent of the parties as expressed in the language used. . . . ” (Citations omitted).”
3 later decisions 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.