671 F. Supp. 1312 - Connolly v. Samuelson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2012
10 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Ling v. Jan's Liquors · Durflinger v. Artiles · 9 Kan. App. 2d 640 - Simms v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Belger Cartage Service, Inc. v. Holland Construction 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The terms of the agreement are not to be extended to situations not plainly within the language employed. It is not necessary, however, that the agreement contain specific or express language covering in so many words the party’s negligence, if the intention to exculpate the party from liability appears from the contract, the surrounding circumstances, and the purposes and objects of the parties.”
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.