Hinkle v. Blinn’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1995
2 district · 12 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 Illinois Building Co. v. Patterson · Cohen v. Clayton Coal Co. · Buckhorn Plaster Co. v. Consolidated Plaster Co. · Thompson v. Sweet · Lovell v. Goss
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We conclude that the conduct of the parties before the controversy arose, acting under the contract, is a reliable test of their interpretation of the instrument, and whatever the stress of subsequent disagreement neither in his own interest may be heard to urge a different construction. North Boulder Farmers' Ditch Co. v. Leggett Ditch & Reservoir Co., 63 Colo. 522 , 168 P. 742 ; New Brantner [Extention] Ditch Co. v. Kramer, 57 Colo. 218 , 141 P. 498 ; Lovell v. Goss, 45 Colo. 304 , 101 P. 72 , 22 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1110; Cohen v. Clayton [Coal] Co., 86 Colo. 270 , 281 P. 111 , 74 A.L.R. 467 ; Illinois Building Co. v. Patterson, 91 Colo. 391 , 15 P. (2d) 699 ; Thompson v. Sweet, 91 Colo. 552 , 17 P. (2d) 308 ; 6 R.C.L. 853. `In construing a contract the court will follow the construction placed upon it by the parties themselves.' Buckhorn [Plaster] Co. v. Consolidated [Plaster] Co., 47 Colo. 516, 529 , 108 P. 27, 33 . * * *"”
2 later decisions 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.