Crecente v. Vernier’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1982
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 R. I. Realty Co. v. Terrell · Cloverdale Co. v. Littlefield · 97 Ind. App. 87 - Buddenberg v. Welch · Hammond v. Hammond · Landowners Co. v. Pendry
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.
““If construction is necessary under the circumstances, it will not be favorable to the lessee who prepared the lease. “‘(d) Where words or other manifestations of intention bear more than one reasonable meaning an interpretation is preferred which operates more strongly against the party from whom they proceed, unless their use by him is prescribed by law.’ Sec. 236, Restatement Law of Contracts. “ ‘Since one who speaks or writes, can by exactness of expression more easily prevent mistakes in meaning, than one with whom he is dealing, doubts arising from ambiguity of language are resolved in favor of the latter; and as he will ordinarily be the promisee of the promise in question, it is sometimes stated that the contract, if ambiguous, will be interpreted in favor of the promisee. * * * ’ Williston on Contracts, Sec. 621.””
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.