Verhoef v. Aston’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2005
2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Atlas Corp. v. Clovis National Bank · 1 Utah 2d 46 - Mathis v. Madsen · 74 Wash. 2d 114 - Dix Steel Co. v. Miles Construction, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be construed so as to give effect to the parties' intentions, and such intent should be determined, if possible, by examining the written agreement executed by the parties. When agreements are executed substantially contemporaneously and are clearly interrelated, they must be construed as a whole and harmonized, if possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sprouse v. Jager“real property interest of perpetual duration” which was binding on the buyer's successors in interest. Id. at 228 . Because the "agreements and the mining deed were executed substantially contemporaneously and [were] clearly interrelated,” the court found that "they must be construed as a whole and harmonized, if possible.”
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.