Cass v. Lord’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Paterson-Leitch Co. v. Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. (1988), Rae v. Air-Speed, Inc. (1982)
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 30 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 Hatch v. United States Casualty Co. · Hewins v. London Assurance Corp. · Ferguson v. Union Mutual Life Insurance · Stone v. Old Colony Street Railway Co. · DeFriest v. Bradley
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is of no consequence that the plaintiff did not read the policy . . . . He is bound by the contract into which he voluntarily entered.”
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.