Collins v. Harrison-Bode’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.3d 429 · 2002
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably SCS Communications, Inc. v. Herrick Co. (2004), Benchmark Electronics, Inc. v. J.M. Huber Corp. (2003)
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Kass v. Kass · Seiden Associates, Inc. v. Anc Holdings, Inc. · Chimart Associates v. Paul · Sayers v. Rochester Telephone Corp. Supplemental Management Pension Plan · George Backer Management Corp. v. Acme Quilting Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under New York law, the question of ambiguity vel non must be determined from the face of the agreement, without reference to extrinsic evidence. Contract language 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ontract language 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.' " Collins , 303 F.3d at 433 (quoting Compagnie Financiere de CIC et de L'Union Europeenne v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. , 232 F.3d 153 , 158 (2d Cir. 2000) ). "[T]he question of ambiguity vel non must be determined from the face of the agreement, without reference to extrinsic evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“according to general principles of contract law.”
2 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.