Lyng v. Bugbee Distributing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2010
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Stokes v. Victory Land Co. · Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Co. v. Thomas · Continental Casualty Co. v. Bows
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intention of the parties to a contract is to be deduced from the language employed by them. The [unambiguous] terms of the contract . . . are conclusive, . . . the question being, not what intention existed in the minds of the parties, but what intention is expressed by the language used.”
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.