Current v. Muir’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1941
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the document in the eye of the law is the contract between the parties, it must be accepted as final for the measurement and adjustment of all rights and obligations which rise out of it. Strangers to the contract may also be strangers to the relation created and controlled by it. But whoever comes within the purview of the relation cannot be permitted to vary or contradict the terms of the memorial which is the sole and final embodiment of the legal act. To this rule there are no exceptions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Setter
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.