Eckart v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2014
11 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 153 Ind. App. 245 - Hauck v. Second National Bank of Richmond · Marriage of Svetich v. Svetich · Jackson v. DeFabis · INB Banking Co. v. Opportunity Options, Inc. · Hardiman v. Governmental Interinsurance Exchange
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the terms of a contract are clear and unambiguous, they are conclusive and we will not construe the contract or consider extrinsic evidence but merely apply the contractual provisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ontract language is given its plain and usual meaning, and a contract is ambiguous only if reasonable people would find the contract subject to more than one construction. The terms of a contract are not ambiguous merely because a controversy exists between the parties concerning its meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Extrinsic evidence is not admissible to explain or remove a patent ambiguity.”
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.