Hopper v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Shaeffer v. Kelton (1980), Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. State (1972)
26 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 Zancanaro v. Cross · Brown v. American Bank of Commerce · Davis v. Merrick · Hilger v. Cotter · 69 Wash. 2d 195 - Kathman v. Wakeling
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [I]t is not the province of the court to alter or amend the contract, but rather to interpret and enforce the contract as made by the parties. :|c * *»”
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.