Philippine Sugar Estates Development Co v. Government of Philippine Islands’s Empirical Analysis
247 U.S. 385 · 1918
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 20 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Radio Corporation of America v. Radio Engineering Laboratories (1934), Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp. (1937)
116 federal appellate · 20 district · 20 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 Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran · Maxwell Land-Grant Case · Snell v. Insurance Co. · Griswold v. Hazard
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that courts of equity will reform a written contract where, owing to mutual mistake, the language used therein did not fully or accurately express the agreement and intention of the parties. The fact that interpretation or construction of a contract presents a question of law, and that, therefore, the mistake was one of law, is not a bar to granting relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It'is also urged that, since the construction of § 285 is a matter of purely local concern,-we should not disturb the decision of the Supreme Gourt of the Philippine Islands. This court is always disposed to accept the construction which the highest court of a territory or possession has placed upon a-local statute. Phoenix Ry. Co. v. Lgndis, 231 U. S. 578 . But that disposition may not be yielded to, where the lower court has clearly erred. Carrington v. United States, 208 U. S. 1 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.