Englestien v. Mintz’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co. v. LaSalle Monroe Building Corp. (1946), Homan v. Employers Reinsurance Corp. (1940)
12 federal appellate · 72 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Consolidated Coal Co. v. Peers · Crawford v. Nimmons · Kochorimbus v. Maggos · Thanos v. Thanos · Rhodes v. Meredith
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words “subject to,” used in their ordinary sense, mean “subordinate to,” “subservient to,” or “limited by.” There is nothing in the use of the words “subject to,” in their ordinary use, which would even hint at the creation of affirmative rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In construing a contract the words used must be given their well-recognized, ordinary meaning, unless it appears from the context of the contract or from the explanation of some ambiguity therein that such was not in accordance with the intent of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]efore a court may look at the surrounding circumstances there must be ambiguity in the language of the instrument.”
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.