Keffer v. Keffer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2025
17 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 Mann v. Koob · Constant v. United States · Peterson v. Wirum · O'Link v. O'Link · Alaska Northern Development, Inc. v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court must resolve any ambiguity in contract language by determining the reasonable expectations of the contracting parties in light of 'the language of any disputed provisions, other provisions, relevant extrinsic evidence, and case law interpreting similar provisions.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[dlifferences of opinion among the parties as to their subjective intent, expressed during the litigation, do not establish an issue of fact regarding the parties' reasonable expectations at the time they entered into the contract, since such self-serving statements are not considered to be probative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Villars v. Villars“'the provisions of a decree adjudicating property rights are modifiable only to the extent that relief may be obtained from any other final judgment'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCarter v. McCarter
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.