United States v. Erickson Paving Company’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 396 · 1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2006
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Sam MacRi & Sons, Inc., a Corporation, and Continental Casualty Company, a Corporation v. U. S. A. For the Use of Oaks Construction Company · 66 Wash. 2d 792 - Felton v. Menan Starch Co. · Saturn Oil and Gas Company, a Corporation v. Northern Natural Gas Company, a Corporation · 53 Wash. 2d 162 - Wise v. Farden · Boswell v. Chapel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is applied only where there is a genuine ambiguity and where, after examining the entire contract, the relation of the parties and the circumstances under which they executed the contract, the ambiguity remains unresolved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the intention of the parties . . . otherwise appear[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.