Singleton v. LaCoure’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
8 federal appellate · 10 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 McCrea v. Cubilla Condominium Corp. N.V. · G-W-L, Inc. v. Robichaux · Martin v. Lou Poliquin Enterprises, Inc. · W. R. Weaver Co. v. Burroughs Corp. · Ellmer v. Delaware Mini-Computer Systems, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] term or clause is conspicuous when it is so written that a reasonable person against whom it is to operate ought to have noticed it. A printed heading in capitals ... is conspicuous. Language in the body of a form is “conspicuous” if it is in larger or other contrasting type or color. But in a telegram any stated term is “conspicuous.” Whether a term or clause is “conspicuous” or not is for decision by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“directs that warranties may be excluded or modified if they are in writing and conspicuous.”
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.