Harris v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably J.M. Davidson, Inc. v. Webster (2003), Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank (1997)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 87 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 Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Texas Employment Commission · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Sosa · White v. White · Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. v. Daniel · Skelly Oil Company v. Archer
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(G)reat, if not controlling, weight should be given by the court to the interpretation placed upon a contract of uncertain meaning by the parties themselves.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This defense rests upon a new contract, express or implied, in which the parties agree to the discharge of an existing obligation in a manner otherwise than originally agreed. The tender of the alternate satisfaction is upon the condition that the acceptance will constitute a discharge of the underlying obligation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Interpretation of a contract becomes a fact issue to be resolved by extrinsic evidence only when application of pertinent rules of construction leaves a genuine uncertainty as to which of two meanings is proper.” (emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions 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.