Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably C.R. Anthony Co. v. Loretto Mall Partners (1991), Shaeffer v. Kelton (1980)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 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 United States v. Union Central Life Insurance · Old Colony Trust Company v. City of Omaha · James Stewart & Co. v. Law · Jones v. Palace Realty Co. · Fanderlik-Locke Co. v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is logical to assume that the parties to a contract know best what is meant by its terms, and that whatever is done by them during the performance of the contract is consistent with their intent and the meaning of the contract terms as understood by them.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * *. It is the function of the court to interpret and enforce the contract as made by the parties. Hopper v. Reynolds, 81 N.M. 255 , 466 P.2d 101 (1970). * * * The primary objective in construing a contract is to ascertain the intent of the parties. [Citations omitted.]"”
2 later decisions 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.