7 Ariz. App. 1 - Lyon v. Big Bend Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2012
16 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 McNeil v. Attaway · Richards Development Company v. Sligh · Valley National Bank v. Shumway · 4 Ariz. App. 287 - Yahnke v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. · 4 Ariz. App. 228 - 7-G Ranching Company v. Stites
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here again the intent of the parties is clearly and unequivocally stated. * * * Although we are unable to find any evidence to explain it, we can only infer that the parties understood these words and intended to emphasize them. It would appear that the trial court allowed parol evidence which contradicted this provision and apparently on the basis of such parol evidence concluded that an ambiguity existed. Extrinsic evidence is admit ted to resolve ambiguities, not create them. * * * ” 435 P.2d, at 735 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is fully understood by the beneficiaries that the aforementioned release price payments are in addition to those required under Trust No. 504.” (Emphasis in original.)”
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.