Simonton v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Additionally, the court may consider the situation of the parties, the business to which the contract relates, the subject matter of the contract, the circumstances surrounding the transaction, and the construction placed on the contract by the parties carrying out its terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yoe v. Crescent Sock Co.

2. “When the language of the contract is plain and unambiguous, the court must determine the parties’ intention from the four comers of contract, interpreting and enforcing it as written.”), with Grazhdan-skii Kodeks Rossiiskoi Federatsii [GK RF] [Civil Code] art. 431 (Russ.) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taryn Murphy v. Sergey Lazarev

3. “[w]hen the language of the contract is plain and unambiguous, the court must determine the parties' intention from the four corners of [the] contract, interpreting and enforcing it as written.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yoe v. Crescent Sock Co.