Spaulding v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Wilkie v. Auto-Owners Insurance (2003), Berkshire Mutual Insurance v. Burbank (1996)
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Clark v. State Street Trust Co. · Dittemore v. Dickey · Malaguti v. Rosen · Radio Corp. of America v. Raytheon Manufacturing Co. · National Shawmut Bank v. Morey
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every instrument in writing is to be interpreted, with a view to the material circumstances of the parties at the time of the execution, in the light of the pertinent facts within their knowledge and in such manner as to give effect to the main end designated to be accomplished.... [The] instrumentos to be so construed as to give- effect to the intent of the ... [parties] as manifested by the words used illumined by all the attendant factors, unless inconsistent with some positive rule of law or repugnant to other terms of the instrument. An omission to express an intention cannot be supplied by conjecture.”
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.