Christmas v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Radiology Professional Corp. v. Trinidad Area Health Ass'n (1978), Ad Two, Inc. v. City & County of Denver (2000)
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 72 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 People v. Hinderlider · United States F. & G. Co. v. First Nat. Bank of Ft. Morgan · Pueblo & Arkansas Valley Railroad v. Taylor · Globe National Bank v. McLean
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ascertaining whether certain provisions of a document are ambiguous, the instrument's language must be examined and construed in harmony with the plain and generally accepted meaning of the words employed, and reference must be made to all the provisions of the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“two well established principles governing the interpretation of contracts.”
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.