Ramsdell v. Ramsdell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 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 First National Bank of Belfield v. Burich · Seablom v. Seablom · Nastrom v. Nastrom · Roen v. Roen · Nugent v. Nugent
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recently recapped the principles for interpreting a divorce settlement: “Stipulations in divorce proceedings concerning the division of property and spousal support are governed by the law of contracts. Contract interpretation is a matter of law and must be determined by the court. If the contract is ambiguous, the court may attempt to ascertain the intent of the parties from the contract as a whole or, if the intent of the parties cannot be gleaned from the contract, it may hear other evidence regarding the parties’ intent. Whether provisions in a contract are ambiguous is a question of law. Interpretation of a contract is a question of law if the intent of the parties can be ascertained from the writing alone. But the parties’ intent in a written contract is a question of fact if extrinsic evidence must be used.” (Citations omitted). Redlin v. Redlin, 436 N.W.2d 5, 7-8 (N.D.1989). These principles pertain here because, as we have often preached, “the word alimony is ambiguous because the word may denote either property distribution or spousal support.” Seablom v. Seablom, 348 N.W.2d 920, 924 (N.D.1984). (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Addy v. Addy
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.