Keating v. Stadium Management Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman (1990), 28 Mass. App. Ct. 108 - USM Corp. v. Arthur D. Little Systems, Inc. (1989)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 21 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 Robert Industries, Inc. v. Spence · Merrimack Valley National Bank v. Baird · Clark v. State Street Trust Co. · Rizzo v. Cunningham · Pittsfield & North Adams Railroad v. Boston & Albany Railroad
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the written agreement, as applied to the subject matter, is in any respect uncertain or equivocal in meaning, all the circumstances of the parties leading to its execution may be shown for the purpose of elucidating, but not of contradicting or changing its terms.”
6 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.