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Austin v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 826 So. 2d 719 - Russell v. Performance Toyota, Inc. · 857 So. 2d 748 - ROYER HOMES OF MS., INC. v. Chandeleur Homes, Inc. · 627 So. 2d 261 - State Highway Com'n v. Patterson Enterprises Ltd. · 332 So. 2d 61 - Stampley v. Gilbert · 826 So. 2d 1261 - Mississippi Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co. v. Britt

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if the contract continues to evade clarity as to the parties' intent, the court should consider extrinsic or parol evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the discretionary canons of contract construction.”
    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.