Nicolaci’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2023
4 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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 Starr v. Fordham · Shea v. BAY STATE GAS CO. CAMP DRESSER & McKEE INC. · Coll v. PB Diagnostic Systems, Inc. · Allen v. Adage, Inc. · Paul Lohnes v. Level Communications 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]mbiguity is not created merely because the litigants disagree about the meaning of a contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“contract interpretation is a question of law for the court unless the contract is ambiguous.”
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.