Bailey v. Fish & Neave’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Law Debenture Trust Co. v. Maverick Tube Corp. (2010), Chesapeake Energy Corp. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. (2014)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a whole to ensure that undue emphasis is not placed upon particular words and phrases,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not by construction add or excise terms, nor distort the meaning of those used and thereby make a new contract for the parties under the guise of interpreting the writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.