Klema v. Soukup’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Weiner v. Wilshire Oil Co. (1964), Simonich v. Wilt (1966)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Maltby v. Sumner · Heckard v. Park · Francis v. Shawnee Mission Rural High School · City of Wichita v. Boles · Hollenbeck v. Lyon
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . the contract being in writing, we have the same duty as did the trial court to determine the question. [Citations.] Under rules stated, we examine the contract to determine whether or not it is free from ambiguity. . . . We are not concerned with whether the arrangement evidenced by the contract was prudent or not, but only with whether the contract is clear and free from ambiguity or the converse.” (pp. 779, 780.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Talbert““Ambiguity in a conveyance 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.” (Our italics.) (Roxana Petroleum Corp. v. Jarvis, 127 Kan. 365, 372 , 273 Pac. 661 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the contract being in writing, we have the same duty as did the trial court to determine the question”
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.