Walb Construction Co. v. Chipman’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Jenkins v. King (1946), Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. v. Moll (1976)
10 federal appellate · 49 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 Ray v. Baker · Clodfelter v. Hulett · Warrum v. White · Beard v. Lofton · Barney v. Yazoo Delta Land Co.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal rule in the interpretation of contracts is to ascertain the intention of the parties, as expressed in the language used, and to give effect to that intention, if it can be done consistently with legal principles.”
2 later decisions 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.