Sanchez v. Borrego’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2022
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 United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. · General Atomic Co. v. United Nuclear Corp. · Lewis Ex Rel. Lewis v. Samson · McNeill v. Rice Engineering & Operating, Inc. · Medina v. Foundation Reserve Insurance
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.
“reasonably and fairly susceptible of different constructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n determining whether a term or expression to which the parties have agreed is unclear, a court may hear evidence of the circumstances surrounding the making of the contract and of any relevant usage of trade, course of dealing, and course of performance.”
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.