Ebert v. Ebert’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Lindsay v. Lindsay (1997), Estate of Revis Ex Rel. Revis v. Revis (1997)
36 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 71
Relies on E.D.M. v. T.A.M. · Talley v. South Carolina Higher Education Tuition Grants Committee · Moseley v. Mosier · Klutts Resort Realty, Inc. v. Down'Round Development Corp. · Bruce v. Blalock
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, a court will not supply omitted terms to an agreement, and an agreement where the parties did not agree to essential terms will simply not be enforced (citation omitted). However, where an agreement is silent as to a particular matter and because of the nature and character of the transaction an ambiguity arises, parol evidence may be admitted in order to supply a deficiency in the language of the contract. In such instance, parol evidence is admissible not to contradict the terms of the written agreement, but to determine the intent of the parties as to that particular matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindsay v. Lindsay“A court approved divorce settlement must be viewed in accordance with principles of equity and there is implied in every such agreement a requirement of reasonableness. Where there is no time set for performance of the terms of a contract, a reasonable time is implied.”); Gray v. Marion County Lumber Co., 102 S.C. 289 , 86 S.E. 640, 641 (1915) (holding that when a contract is silent”
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.