Wiles v. Wiles’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Bonanza, Inc. v. McLean (1987), Augusta Medical Complex, Inc. v. Blue Cross of Kansas, Inc. (1980)
4 district · 38 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 Pelischek v. Voshell · FIRST NATL. BANK OF LAWRENCE v. Methodist Home for Aged · Sykes v. Perry · Zelleken v. Lynch · Kittel v. Krause
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A cardinal rule in the construction of contracts is that they must be interpreted in light of their own peculiar provisions, and every provision must be construed, if possible so as to be consistent with every other provision and to give effect to all. (Citation.) If a contract is clear and unambiguous, the terms thereof must be construed in such manner as to give effect to the intention of the parties at the time they entered into the contract, and this must be determined from the four corners of the instrument itself. (Citation.)” (l. c. 619.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koepp v. Pribyl“A cardinal rule in the construction of contracts is that they must be interpreted in light of their own peculiar provisions, and every provision must be construed, if possible, so as to be consistent with every other provision and to give effect to all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]rovisions not specifically mentioned in a written contract, but which are essential in carrying out its purposes, may be implied, and, when properly implied, are as binding as if written therein.”
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.