Deal v. Consumer Programs, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.3d 1225 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2023
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Studley v. Boylston National Bank · ACLU Nebraska Foundation v. City of Plattsmouth · Lake Cable, Inc. v. Trittler · Young Dental Manufacturing Co. v. Engineered Products, Inc. · Sligo, Inc. v. Nevois
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Under Missouri law, summary judgment is appropriate [in a contract case] where the language of the contract is clear and unambiguous such that the meaning of the portion of the contract in issue is so apparent that it may be determined from the four corners of the document.’ ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ ‘uses plain and unequivocal language.’ ”
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.