Berry v. Klinger’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hitachi Credit America Corp. v. Signet Bank (1999), Amos v. Coffey (1984)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 159 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 69 Cal. 2d 33 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co. · Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co. · Globe Iron Construction Co. v. First National Bank · Quesenberry v. Nichols and Erie · Title Insurance v. Howell
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhere an agreement is complete on its face, is plain and unambiguous in its terms, the court is not at liberty to search for its meaning beyond the instrument itself .... This is so because the writing is the repository of the final agreement of the parties.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the condition of admitting of two or more meanings, of being understood in more than one way, or of referring to two or more things at the same time.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“His opponent is entitled to rely upon the position he takes, and should be able to prepare for trial with the assurance that this position will not be suddenly changed without notice. For this reason, a litigant will not be permitted to assume, successively, inconsistent and mutually contradictory positions. Winslow v. Scaife, 224 Va. 647 , 299 S.E.2d 354 (1983).”
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.