Pee Dee Stores, Inc. v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc. · Tupper v. Dorchester County · George v. Fabri · South Carolina Department of Natural Resources v. Town of McClellanville · Gilliland v. Elmwood Properties
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is improper when there is an issue as to the construction of a written contract and the contract is ambiguous because the intent of the parties cannot be gathered from the four corners of the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Day“The court is without authority to consider parties' secret intentions, and therefore words cannot be read into a contract to impart an intent unexpressed when the contract was executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Day“Thus, the appellate court reviews all ambiguities, conclusions, and inferences arising in and from the evidence in a light most favorable to the non-moving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Day
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.