Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Emmet Fertilizer & Grain Co.’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 358 · 1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2016
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Peter Kiewit Sons Co. v. O'Keefe Elevator Co., Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“[The railroad] presents an alternate theory of recovery — that Emmet had orally agreed as early as 1976 to maintain its fertilizer unloader subject to [the railroad’s] “standard licénse agreement.” Emmet had previously signed two license agreements covering facilities similar to the fertilizer unloader, each of which contained an indemnity provision. [The railroad] reasons that the indemnity clauses of these earlier licenses were incorporated by reference into an implied oral agreement governing the fertilizer unloader from 1976 onward;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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