Singpiel v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2016
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Garrett v. BankWest, Inc. · Malcolm v. Malcolm · Groseth International, Inc. v. Tenneco, Inc. · Vinyard v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Huffman v. Shevlin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract is not rendered ambiguous simply because the parties do not agree on its proper construction or their intent upon executing the contract. Rather, a contract is ambiguous only when it is capable of more than one meaning when viewed objectively by a reasonably intelligent person who has examined the context of the entire integrated agreement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“we employ the following standard: A contract is not rendered ambiguous simply because the parties do not agree on its proper construction or their intent upon executing the contract. Rather, a contract is ambiguous only when”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotton v. Manning
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.