Sutton v. Beckwith’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1943
21 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 Jackson ex dem. Watson v. McKenny · Dow v. Tuttle · State National Bank v. Cason · Smith v. Blarcom · Adams v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These two papers, so executed, must be taken and construed together. ^ They formed one contract, and, between the original parties to the note, could not be enforced until the agreement was performed. It has been well settled, in this state and elsewhere, that several instruments made at one and the same time, and having relation to the same subject matter, must be taken to be parts of one transaction, and construed together for the purpose of showing the true contract between the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seaman v. McNamara
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.