Habets v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Carelli v. Hall · Akamine & Sons, Ltd. v. American Security Bank · Oxford Commercial Corp. v. Landau · Fillinger v. Northwestern Agency, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An ambiguity exists when the contract taken as a whole in its wording or phraseology is reasonably subject to two different interpretations.”
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.