Lalow v. Codomo’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Paddock v. Bay Concrete Industries, Inc. (1963), 875 So. 2d 375 - St. Joe Corp. v. McIver (2004)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 United States Rubber Products, Inc. v. Clark · Glass v. Parrish · Ahern v. Florida Real Estate Commission Ex Rel. O'Kelley · Upton v. Hutchison · 78 So. 2d 709 - Handel v. Rudnick
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the actions of the parties may be considered as a means of determining the interpretation that they themselves have placed upon the contract”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determined from an examination of the whole contract”
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.