Cavazos v. Trevino’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 773 · 1867
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Runkle v. Burnham (1894), Hunnicutt v. Peyton (1880)
20 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object and effect of such evidence are not to contradict or vary the terms of the instrument , but to enable the court to arrive at the proper conclusion as to its meaning, and the understanding and intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is always admitted, and is entitled to weight. There is no better test of the intention of the instrument.... Safer testimony can hardly be presented in relation to any transaction occurring in human affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“competent ... for the purpose of placing the court in the same situation, and giving it the same advantages, for construing the paper which were possessed by the actors themselves.”
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.