Lama v. Manale’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Maloney v. Oak Builders, Inc. (1970), Texaco, Inc. v. Vermilion Parish School Board (1963)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 Cust v. Item Co. · Canal Realty & Improvement Co. v. Pailet · Moorman v. Parkerson · M. M. Ullman & Co. v. Levy · Niblett Farms, Inc. v. Markley-Bankhead, 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[1,2] Where there is a clause in a contract, and that clause is the agreement of the parties, the defense of a lack of knowledge of its existence is untenable. Courts are not created to relieve men of their bad bargains made. Where a clause of a contract is clear and unambiguous, `the letter of it should not be disregarded, under the pretext of pursuing the spirit.' "[3] As to the defense of variation of the wording with the true intent of the parties, the general rule of law is that the intent must be gathered from the language of the instrument itself, and the contract should be enforced unless such enforcement would lead to absurd consequences, R.C.C. art. 1945, par. 3."”
4 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.