Security Trust Co. v. Stapp’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably Easton v. Washington County Insurance (1957), Waldman v. Shoemaker (1951)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Schwartz v. Whelan · Caley v. Philadelphia & Chester County Railroad · Chaplin v. Griffin · Laney Et Ux. v. Columbia Nat. Gas Co. · Edmonds v. First National Bank
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion testimony to explain what the parties intended by the words `any and all loans made by you from this bank' and `upon your repayment to us of all obligations held by us' is required because of the obvious ambiguity contained in the language used. It is well settled that where a contract is ambiguous, either party may produce evidence to resolve the ambiguity * * *.”
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.