Mazer v. Kann’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2010
22 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 Achenbach v. Stoddard · Magazine Digest Publishing Co. v. Shade · Holloway v. Frick · Dunlap Printing Co. v. Ryan · Montelius v. Montelius
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is always competent for the parties to a written contract to show that it was subsequently abandoned in whole or in part, modified, changed, or a new one substituted. And this may be shown by...by showing either an express agreement or actions necessarily involving the alterations .Id. (quoting Achenbach v. Stoddard, 98 A. 604, 605 (1916); Mazer v. Kann, 22 A.2d 707, 708 (1941)) (emphasis added).”
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.