Hamann v. Crouch’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 136 F. Supp. 125 - Hurd v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company · Lampe v. Wille · 173 F. Supp. 805 - Cresswell v. United States · Bowers Hydraulic Dredging Company v. United States · Shannep v. Strong
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A cardinal rule in the interpretation of contracts is to ascertain the intention of the parties and to give effect to that intention if it can be done consistent 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.