Krumme v. WestPoint Stevens Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.3d 133 · 2000
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Visa U.S.A. Inc. (2005), Powell v. National Board of Medical Examiners (2004)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Hormel v. Helvering · Breed v. Insurance Co. of North America · Allen · Seiden Associates, Inc. v. Anc Holdings, 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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'assume that New York law controls, and such implied consent is sufficient to establish choice of law.’”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he language of a contract is ambiguous if it is capable of more than one meaning when viewed objectively by a reasonably intelligent person who has examined the context of the entire integrated agreement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rescission is an extraordinary remedy, appropriate only where the breach is found to be material and willful, or, if not willful, so substantial and fundamental as to strongly tend to defeat the object of the parties in making the contract.”
1 later decision 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.