Palmer v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2021
2 district · 7 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 Ron Case Roofing & Asphalt Paving, Inc. v. Blomquist · Rio Algom Corp. v. Jimco Ltd. · CECO Corp. v. Concrete Specialists, Inc. · John Call Engineering, Inc. v. Manti City Corp. · Fitzgerald v. Corbett
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he settled rule [for] interpreting a contract [is to] first look to the four corners of the agreement to determine the intention of the parties. The use of extrinsic evidence is permitted only if the document appears to incompletely express the parties’ agreement or if it is ambiguous in expressing that agreement. Contract provisions are not rendered ambiguous merely by the fact that the parties urge diverse interpretations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This court cannot rewrite the contract because [the] appellant failed to include language to protect her rights.”
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.