Donald Terwilliger Jr v. Donald L Terwilliger III and John Terwilliger’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Morales v. Quintel Entertainment, Inc. (2001), Hermès International v. Lederer de Paris Fifth Avenue, Inc. (2000)
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Breed v. Insurance Co. of North America · Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. · Bickerstaff v. Vassar College · Port Chester Electrical Construction Corp. v. Atlas
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Under New York law, a written contract is to be interpreted so as to give effect to the intention of the parties as expressed in the unequivocal language they have employed.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ffect and meaning must be given to every term of the contract, and reasonable effort must be made to harmonize all of its terms.”
2 later decisions 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.