McNamee v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
87 F. 298 · 1898
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance · West v. Smith · Solomon Etting v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Hughes v. Dundee Mortgage Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although it is the province of the court to construe written instruments, yet when the effect of such instruments depends, not merely on the construction and meaning of the instruments, but upon collateral facts in pais and extrinsic circumstances, the inferences of fact to be drawn from them are to be left to the jury.””
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.