Bartholomew v. Muzzy’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Dennen v. Searle (1961), Faiola v. Faiola (1968)
4 federal appellate · 33 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In arriving at the intent expressed or implied in the language used, however, it is always admissible to consider the situation of the parties and the circumstances connected with the transaction, and every part of the writing should be considered with the help of that evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Urban v. Urban“The only rule of much value is to place ourselves as near as possible in the seats which were occupied by the parties at the time the instrument was executed; then, taking it by its four corners, to read it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Urban v. Urban““ . . . Under the circumstances, we think the deed conveyed to the husband and wife the use of the property during their joint lives, and a contingent remainder to the survivor.” ( 23 A. at 606 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shrout v. Seale
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.