Stapling Machines Co. v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2000
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Knabb v. Reconstruction Finance Corporation · Florida Moss Products Co. v. City of Leesburg · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Thompson · 58 So. 2d 513 - MacGregor v. Hosack · Roe v. Henderson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law as we understand it is that "common usage may be resorted to clear up and make definite that which is doubtful or uncertain but it will not be employed to vary or contradict that which the parties have set down and agreed to in no uncertain terms. If the terms of the contract are clear and certain, they will not be disturbed by usage no matter how well settled it will be nor will usage be permitted to read express terms from the contract." ... "`[C]ustom and usage' cannot prevail as against an express contract between the parties."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[C]ustom and usage' cannot prevail as against an express contract between the parties.”
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.