Rego v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Jager v. State (1975), Peterson v. Wirum (1981)
46 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 William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Ansorge v. Kane · Fluegel v. Coudert · Blanchard v. Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan Railroad · Young v. Nelson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts should fill gaps in contracts to ensure fairness where the reasonable expectations of the parties are fairly clear”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably definite and certain as to its terms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the only uncertainty is as to the period of credit to be allowed, the right to interest not being involved, the vendee may surmount the difficulty and entitle himself to specific performance by asking no credit whatever and offering to pay the whole amount in cash. Corbin, Contracts § 1174, at 284-85 (1964).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vozar v. Francis
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.