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Creveling v. Ingold’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Corporate Air v. Edwards Jet Center (2008), Richards v. JTL Group, Inc. (2009)

33 state decisions

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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 TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY v. Ribi Immunochem Research, Inc. · Wurl v. Polson School District No. 23 · Pablo v. Moore · Newman v. Wittmer · State v. Kearney

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]t is not the proper role of the judiciary to insert modifying language into clearly written and unambiguous instruments where the parties to the instrument declined to do so.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “restrictive covenants are strictly construed and ambiguities in covenants are resolved to allow free use of property,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted.”
    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.