Baldwin v. New’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2012
1 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 116th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley · Lewis v. East Texas Finance Co. · Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. · Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Powell · Volpe v. Schlobohm
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the contract is ambiguous, then the surrounding circumstances may be considered in determining the meaning. However, if the contract is not ambiguous, then a party’s construction is immaterial.”
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.