Murray v. Puls’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schmidt v. Clothier · Blattner v. Forster · Fletcher v. St. Paul Pioneer Press · Johnson v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc. · Burkstrand v. Burkstrand
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of a contract is a question of law if no ambiguity exists, but if ambiguous, it is a question of fact and extrinsic evidence may be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Bradley
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.