Vockner v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2022
11 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 Moore v. State · Campbell Soup Co. v. Lojeski · Morrow v. New Moon Homes, Inc. · 415 F. Supp. 264 - Johnson v. Mobil Oil Corp. · Young v. Williams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees.” These explicit references suggest that the parties did not intend attorney's fees to be recoverable unless the contract specifically provided otherwise. 15 . Alaska R. Civ. P. 82(a). 16 . Alaska R. Civ. P. 82(b)(2). 17 . We have stated that "[u]nconscionability may exist where [the] circumstances indicate a vast disparity of bargaining power coupled with terms unreasonably favorable to the stronger party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unconscion-ability has generally been recognized to include an absence of meaningful choice on the part of one of the parties together with contract terms which are unreasonably favorable to the other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not unconscionable merely because the parties to it are unequal in bargaining position, nor even because the inequality results in an allocation of risks to the weaker party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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