Parmelee v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 14 Ill. App. 2d 5 - Hulke v. International Manufacturing Co. (1957), City of Chicago v. Babcock (1892)
10 federal appellate · 52 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Rice v. Webster · Kirby v. Taylor · Kinsey v. Nisley
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But a release, like every other written instrument, must be so construed as to carry out the intention of the parties. This intention is to be sought in the language of the instrument itself when read in the light of the circumstances which surrounded the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cannon v. Burge“there is no principle of law better settled than that the legislature can at any time take away the right of action for a penalty. The law recognizes no vested right in a penalty.”
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.