Gabel-Lockhart Co. v. Gabel’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company (1960), Barb v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (1955)
37 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 Paisley v. Lucas · State Ex Rel. McClure v. Dinwiddie · Eyster v. Centennial Board of Finance · Crocker v. Barteau
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The meaning of the term 'net profits’ should be accepted and the contract construed according to the contracting parties’ intention. It has been said that, in construing a contract of doubtful meaning, the court must give such a construction as will-be fair and reasonable. In reaching a construction ‘that is fair and reasonable under all the facts and circumstances, the cou’rt may consider the relationship of the parties, the subject matter of the contract, the usages of the business, the surrounding facts and circumstances attending the execution of the contract and its interpretation- by the parties.’ 4c * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Barton
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.