Stice v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Nyhus v. Travel Management Corp. (1972), Vasey v. Martin Marietta Corp. (1994)
11 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 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 American Mining Co. v. Himrod-Kimball Mines Co. · Mestas v. Martini · Newton Oil Co. v. Bockhold · Greater Service Homebuilders Investment Ass'n v. Albright · Bowes v. Cannon
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be sufficiently definite to enable the court to determine whether the contract has been performed or not.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen the language in a contract is too uncertain to gather from it what the parties intended, the courts cannot enforce it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was completely uncertain as to what was actually said by the defendant.”
1 later decision 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.