Register v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Schenkel & Shultz, Inc. v. Hermon F. Fox & Associates (2008), Lunsford v. Mills (2014)
8 federal appellate · 54 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 Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Westchester Fire Insurance · Woods v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Pennington · Johnston County v. R. N. Rouse & Co. · C. D. Spangler Construction Co. v. Industrial Crankshaft & Engineering 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n ambiguity can exist when, even though the words themselves appear clear, the specific facts of the case create more than one reasonable interpretation of the contractual provisions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An ambiguity exists in a contract when either the meaning of words or the effect of provisions is uncertain or capable of several reasonable interpretations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a statutory limitations period on a cause of action necessarily cannot begin to run before a party acquires a right to maintain a lawsuit”
3 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.