Wikoff v. Vanderveld’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 232 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Bank Leumi Le-Israel v. Lee (1991), Fiore v. Washington County Community Mental Health Center (1992)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2107
Relies on Catlin v. United States · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Kahn v. Grant · Alder 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the trial court determines that the language of the contract is ambiguous, the court may then consider (or admit into evidence for the jury's consideration if the jury is the trier of fact) extrinsic or parol evidence, in addition to the contractual language, to ascertain the intent of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Had the amendment of the original judgment been properly set forth on a separate judgment form, as required under Rule 58, the expenditure of scarce judicial resources both in this court and the district court on the preceding jurisdictional question would have been unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“requirement of Rule 58. A minute order suffices when the judge denies a request to alter the judgment, for then the original judgment remains intact. However, when the court grants a Rule 59(e) motion, thus rendering a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.