Cartwright v. Trueblood’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Maupin v. Chaney (1942), Gates v. Asher (1955)
3 federal appellate · 104 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not permissible to give controlling effect to that which creates an ambiguity, and destroys the certainty which is expressed by other language....”
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.