Burke v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2010
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on DiLuglio v. Providence Auto Body, Inc. · Chapman v. Vendresca · Calisto v. Registry of Motor Vehicles Dept. of Transportation
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental principle of contract law, as well as being well settled in this state, that ‘clear and unambiguous language set out in a contract is controlling in regard to the intent of the parties to such contract and governs the legal consequences of its provisions'”
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.