Lewis v. Mathes’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Slider (2009), Cundall v. U.S. Bank, N.A. (2007)
34 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 Dresher v. Burt · Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · Mitseff v. Wheeler · Bostic v. Connor · Kelly v. Medical Life 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[contractual terms are ambiguous if the meaning of the terms cannot be deciphered from reading the entire contract or if the terms are reasonably susceptible of more than one interpretation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“contract is generally not severable if its purpose, terms, and nature contemplate that its parts and consideration shall be interdependent and common to each other. * * * If the consideration to be paid is single and entire, the contract must be held to be entire, although the subject thereof may consist of several distinct and wholly independent items.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the agreement was entire[,] [therefore Lewis was required to return the *Page 16 $68,000 to avoid the release and pursue his causes of action against [defendants].”
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.