Hardy v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tupper v. Dorchester County · Felts v. Richland County · South Carolina Department of Natural Resources v. Town of McClellanville · Hamilton v. CCM, Inc. · 119 N.C. App. 761 - Allen v. Sea Gate Ass'n, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract is ambiguous when the terms of the contract are reasonably susceptible of more than one interpretation.”
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.