Mather Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Buchanan v. Brentwood Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. (1974), Fineman v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1992)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Barrows v. Jackson · Waldman v. Shoemaker · London v. Kingsley · Palmer v. Chamberlin
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to determine the meaning of the agreement, we must examine the entire contract since it is well settled that in construing a contract the intention of the parties governs and that intention must be ascertained from the entire instrument taking into consideration the surrounding circumstances, the situation of the parties when the contract was made and the objects they apparently had in view and the nature of the subject matter.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“family agreements are always favored in the law.”
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.