Bergman v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2019
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Brier v. Orenberg · J. D. Hedin Construction Co. v. F. S. Bowen Electric Co. · Whelan v. Griffith Consumers Company · Wm. P. Lipscomb Co. v. Kaldenbach & Wysong, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intentions of parties to a contract must be determined not only from the terms of the written agreement but also from the actions of the parties in relation thereto.”
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.