Klein v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1997
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 American Surety Co of New York v. Pauly · Insurance Company v. Dutcher · Canal Company v. Hill · F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Petersen · Merritt v. Thompson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of a contract the primary rule is that the court endeavor to ascertain the substantial intent of the parties as expressed by their language; and we think it is evident that the parties intended to create a term of one year beginning December 15, 1941, and did not intend, as the tenant maintains, to create a term of a year and a day. In our opinion the expressions “one year” and “commencing on the 15th day of December, 1941,” outweigh the expression “ending December 15, 1942.” (Footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A tenancy from month to month, or from quarter to quarter, may be terminated by a thirty days’ notice in writing from the landlord to the tenant to quit, or by such a notice from the tenant to the landlord of his intention to quit, said notice to expire, in either case, on the day of the month from which such tenancy commenced to run.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sklar v. Hightower
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.