Ames v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably 126 Ind. App. 527 - Guraly v. TENTA (1956), Micheli v. Taylor (1945)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Ullsperger v. Meyer · Tewksbury v. Howard · Howard v. Adkins · Wills v. Ross · Warner v. Marshall
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that where the description given is consistent, but incomplete, and its completion does not require the contradiction or alteration of that given, nor that a new description should be introduced, parol evidence may be received to complete the description and identify the property. Tewksbury v. Howard (1894), 138 Ind. 103 , [ 307 N.E. 355 ]; Maris v. Masters (1903), 31 Ind. App. 235 , [ 67 N.E. 699 ]; Warner v. Marshall (1906), 166 Ind. 88 , [ 75 N.E. 582 ]; Howard v. Adkins (1906), 167 Ind. 184 , [ 78 N.E. 665 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is also a settled principle of equity that the enforcement of specific performance of a contract is not a matter of right, but rests in the sound discretion of the court, and the court will do what seems just and equitable under the peculiar circumstances of the particular case. Boldt v. Early (1904), 33 Ind. App. 434 , 104 Am. St. 255; Ratterman v. Campbell, supra. But this discretion is not an arbitrary one. It must be governed by the well-settled principles of equity. 1 Story, Eq. Jurisp. (11th ed.) Sec. 742.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The •writing does not become the contract, but simply the evidence thereof; and whether it remains in the hands of the one party or the other, if it is properly identified as the full expression of the contract, upon which the minds of the two parties met, it fulfils the purpose of the statute and renders the contract agreed upon enforceable.” (Ames v. Ames, 46 Ind. App. 597, 604 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnett v. Wescott
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.