Embree v. Koelsch’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2010
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on District of Columbia v. Gallaher · Berg v. Scully · Kirkpatrick v. Chrysler Sales Corp.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tile interpretation of a written contract, free from ambiguity, is a judicial function and does not require oral testimony to determine its meaning. Ambiguity in a written instrument does not appear until application of pertinent rules of interpretation to the face of the instrument leaves it genuinely uncertain which one of two or more meanings is the proper meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Klema v. Soukup
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.