Newton v. Misner’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 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 Peckham v. Ronrico Corp. · Union Insurance Society v. William Gluckin & Co. · The American Securit Company, a Corporation v. Hamilton Glass Company, Inc., a Corporation · 198 F. Supp. 1 - State of Maryland Ex Rel. Barresi v. Hatch · Ernst Seidelman Corp. v. Mollison
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.
“shall be made on personal knowledge, shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence, and shall show affirmatively that the affiant is competent to testify to the matters stated therein. Sworn or certified copies of all papers or parts thereof referred to in an affidavit shall be attached thereto or served therewith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(e) Form of affidavits; further testimony; defense required. — Supporting and opposing affidavits shall be made on personal knowledge, shall set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence, and shall show affirmatively that the af-fiant is competent to testify to the matters stated therein. Sworn or certified copies of all papers or parts thereof referred to in an affidavit shall be attached thereto or served therewith. * * * ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) The existence or nonexistence of evidence tending to show that there was oral confirmation at the time of the written agreement by which the Misners would pay the Newtons $12,500 in cash; and “(2) If there was an agreement that $12,-500 should be paid in cash by the buyers to the sellers, was this altered by a later accord and satisfaction or settlement?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Misner v. Newton
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.