Sears v. Riemersma’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2016
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · Turtle Management, Inc. v. Haggis Management, Inc. · Piacitelli v. Southern Utah State College · 30 Utah 2d 187 - Thomas J. Peck & Sons, Inc. v. Lee Rock Products, Inc. · Beckstrom v. Beckstrom
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.
“[Alny uncertainty with respect to construction of a contract should be resolved against the party who [drafted] the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by looking at the entire contract and all of its parts in relation to each other, giving an objective and reasonable construction to the contract as a whole.”
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.