Tupper v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Singh (1992), Itt Corporation v. Ltx Corporation (1991)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 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 National Shawmut Bank v. Joy · Willett v. Herrick · Radovsky v. Wexler · Barrell v. Britton · Gold v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a canon of construction that every word and phrase of an instrument is if possible to be given meaning, and none is to be rejected as surplusage if any other course is rationally possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where, as here, the releases were absolute and unequivocal in their terms, they cannot be explained by parol evidence and must be construed according to the language the parties have seen fit to use.”
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.