OP Link Handle Company v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 federal appellate · 9 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 Gibson v. Sellars · Carter's Administrator v. Quillen · Gibson v. Dupin · McNeill's Administratrix v. Riley · Haag v. Dixon
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not the function of the judiciary to change the obligations of a contract which the parties have seen fit to make.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The terms of an unambiguous contract cannot be varied by extrinsic evidence.”
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.