Saunders v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 438 Main Street v. Easy Heat, Inc. (2004), Jau-Fei Chen v. Stewart (2004)
1 district · 42 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 Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Grayson Roper Ltd. Partnership v. Finlinson · Landes v. Capital City Bank · Saunders v. Sharp
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assumel[ ] that the record supports the findings of the trial court,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The interpretation of a contract is a matter of law for the court to determine unless the contract is ambiguous and evidence of the parties' intent ... is necessary to establish the terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.