Janos v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Brainard v. N.Y.C.R.R. Co. · In Re the Arbitration Between Western Union Telegraph Co. & American Communications Ass'n · General Phoenix Corp. v. Cabot · Lachs v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Kenyon v. Knights Templar & Masonic Mutual Aid Ass'n
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the rule that when a contract is clear in and of itself, circumstances extrinsic to the document may not be considered and that where the intention of the parties may be gathered from the four corners of the instrument, interpretation of the contract is a question of law and no trial is necessary to determine the legal effect of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where ... there is a question as to the construction of a written contract between the parties and the determination of that question may be reached by reference to and a consideration of the plain and unambiguous wording of the contract, the question, as one of law, should be then and there resolved.”
1 later decision 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.