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Edmonds v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

642 F.2d 877 · 1981

Citation profile

86
cited by 86 later decisions
3
states following
April 2021
most recently cited

25 federal appellate · 19 district · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Paterson-Leitch Co. v. Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. (1988), Coll v. PB Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (1995)

25 federal appellate · 19 district · 13 state decisions

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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 Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Bowes · Freelander v. G. & K. REALTY CORP. · Virginia T. Gillentine v. Maxwell N. McKeand Lawrence Moore · Charles, Henry & Crowley Co. Inc. v. Home Ins. Co.

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

  1. “[w]here the wording of the contract is unambiguous, the contract must be enforced according to its terms.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. O'Donnell-Usen Fisheries v. Bathurst · CRJ Investments v. Feeney (In re Dorand, Inc.)
  2. ““[A] statement made in an application for a policy of insurance may become a condition of the policy rather than remain a warranty or representation if: (1) the statement made by the insured relates essentially to the insurer’s intelligent decision to issue the policy; and (2) the statement is made a condition precedent to recovery under the policy, either by using the precise words ‘condition precedent’ or their equivalent.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Kobico, Inc. v. Pipe · 14 Mass. App. Ct. 254 - Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies v. Blais

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.