Rund v. Melillo’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
37 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Levine v. Advest, Inc. · Powers v. State · Middletown Commercial Associates Ltd. Partnership v. City of Middletown · Paul Revere Life Insurance v. Pastena · John M. Glover Agency v. RDB Building, LLC
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is ambiguity, we must construe contractual terms against the drafter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although ordinarily the question of contract interpretation being a question of the parties' intent, is a question of fact . . . [w]here there is definitive contract language, the determination of what the parties intended by their contractual commitments is a question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] court will not torture words to import ambiguity where the ordinary meaning leaves no room for ambiguity, and words do not become ambiguous simply because lawyers or laymen contend for different meanings.”
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.