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Rivera v. Gagnon’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

6 district · 19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Gorman v. Gorman (2005), Siebe, Inc. v. Louis M. Gerson Co. (2009)

6 district · 19 state decisions

170200420102020decided

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 Rotelli v. Catanzaro · Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc./Franki Foundation Co. v. Gill · W.P. Associates v. Forcier, Inc. · F. D. McKendall Lumber Co. v. Kalian · Durfee v. Ocean State Steel, Inc.

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the contract terms are clear and unambiguous, judicial construction is at an end for the terms will be applied as written.”). 10 . Contrary to another of plaintiff's contentions, there is no requirement that the”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. James F. Nuzzo v. Nuzzo Campion Stone Enterprises, Inc. f/k/a Corriveault Holdings, Inc. · Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh
  2. “it is well established that 'a party who signs an instrument manifests his assent to it and cannot later complain that he did not read the instrument or that he did not understand its contents.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Management Capital, L.L.C. v. F.A.F., Inc.
  3. “whether a contract is clear and unambiguous, the document must be viewed in its entirety and its language be given its plain, ordinary and usual meaning.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh

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.