Adler v. Abramson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2025
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party · 97 Ill. App. 3d 22 - Foster Enterprises, Inc. v. Germania Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · Cobb v. Standard Drug Co., Inc. · 1010 Potomac Associates v. Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. · One-O-One Enterprises, Inc. v. Caruso
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing a contract, the court must determine what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have thought the disputed language meant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the written language of a contract governs the parties' rights unless it is not susceptible of clear meaning.”
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.