Trondson v. Janikula’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Brookfield Trade Center, Inc. v. County of Ramsey (1998), Wessels, Arnold & Henderson v. National Medical Waste, Inc. (1995)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 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 Metro Office Parks Co. v. Control Data Corp. · Hydra-Mac, Inc. v. Onan Corp. · First National Bank of St. Paul v. Ramier · Marks v. City of Tucumcari · Pelser v. Gingold
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] contract is ambiguous when the language of the written document, by itself, is reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he construction and effect of a contract presents a question of law, unless an ambiguity exists.”
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.