Harrison v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Dunn v. Meridian Mutual Insurance Co. (2005), PSI Energy, Inc. v. Home Insurance Co. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Barrington Management Co. v. Paul E. Draper Family Ltd. · Johnson v. Bucklen · Epperly v. Johnson · Willie's Const. Co., Inc. v. Baker · Moore v. Moore
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and term meaningful, unambiguous, and harmonious with the whole.” Id. “[C]onstruetion of the terms of a written contract is a pure”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Village Pines at the Pines of Greenwood Homeowners' Association, Inc. v. Pines of Greenwood, LLC, and Arbor Homes, LLC · Maureen Maynard, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frank Cavazos v. Golden Living in its own capacity and d/b/a Golden Living Center-Sycamore, and Anonymous M.D.“It has long been the law in this state that “[t]he performance of a condition precedent may be waived in many ways.” Johnson v. Bucklen, 9 Ind.App. 154, 157 , 36 N.E. 176, 177 (1894). One such way is by the conduct of the parties to the contract. [W]hether there has been a waiver of a contract provision is ordinarily a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the subject matter of the contract, the circumstances attending performance of the contract, and the situation of the parties to the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dick v. Conseco
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.