Jacobs v. Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Board of Com'rs of Woodson County (1906), Pressed Steel Car Co. v. Eastern Ry. Co. (1903)
9 federal appellate · 18 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 Hoffman v. Ætna Fire Insurance · Clinton v. . the Hope Insurance Company · Sickels v. Pattison · Appleton Iron Co. v. British America Assurance Co. · Wier v. Simmons
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is also a rule which is entitled to serious consideration that when the terms of a contract are, or, by any act of parties under the contract, become indefinite, uncertain and susceptible of two constructions, and by giving them one construction one of the parties would be subject to forfeiture, and by giving them the other no such forfeiture would be incurred and no injustice would be done to the other party, the contract should be construed as not creating a forfeiture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.