Freund v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. · 197 Ga. App. 63 - Strickland v. DeKalb Hospital Authority · Giddens Construction Co. v. Fickling & Walker Co. · Exchange Bank v. Macon Construction 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f that intention is clear and it contravenes no rule of law and sufficient words are used to arrive at the intention, it shall be enforced irrespective of all technical or arbitrary rules of construction. Further, the construction which will uphold a contract in whole and in every part is to be preferred, and the whole contract should be looked to in arriving at the construction of any part. Moreover, no construction is required or even permitted when the language employed by the parties in the contract is plain, unambiguous, and capable of only one reasonable interpretation. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] word or phrase is ambiguous when its meaning is uncertain and it may be fairly understood in more ways than one.”
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.