Sanders v. Munson’s Empirical Analysis
74 F. 649 · 1896
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1997
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Filley v. Pope · Sanders v. Munson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ambiguities in the terms of a contract are often dispelled by the construction which the parties themselves have placed upon the terms before con-troversy bas arisen, and courts frequently give effect to this construction, and adopt the meaning which the parties have assumed to be correct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot recover damages which arise by reason of his own inactivity or imprudence, and are not the necessary and natural consequences of the default of the other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under no obligation to accept a slower and smaller vessel than the [originally chartered vessel] had been represented to be”
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.