Chapman v. Vendresca’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2010
1 district · 12 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 Coopersmith v. Isherwood · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. E.W. Burman, Inc. · Flanagan v. Kelly's System of New England, Inc. · Theroux v. Bay Associates, Inc. · DiBiasio v. DiFazio
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental principle of contract law, as well as being well settled in this state, that ‘clear and unambiguous language set out in a contract is controlling in regard to the intent of the parties to such contract and governs the legal consequences of its provisions'”
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.