Essington v. Buchele’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Enchanted World Doll Museum v. Buskohl (1986), LPN Trust v. Farrar Outdoor Advertising, Inc. (1996)
27 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 Clark v. Bergen · Eggers v. Eggers · Craig v. National Farmers Union Automobile & Casualty Co. · 115 Cal. App. 210 - Bank of America v. Granger · F. P. Cutting Co. v. Peterson
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.
“"In revising a written instrument, the court may inquire what the instrument was intended to mean, and'. what were intended to be its legal consequences, and is not confined to the inquiry what the language of the instrument was intended to be."”
2 later decisions 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.