Wilson Arlington Company v. Prudential Insurance Company of America’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 366 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Taylor v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1993), Saffon v. Wells Fargo & Co. Long Term Disability Plan (2008)
19 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 69 Cal. 2d 33 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co. · Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · Evans v. Jeff D. · Wilson v. Holyfield
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f parties to an agreement could not rely on written words to express their consent to the express terms of that agreement, those words would become little more than sideshows in a circus of self-serving declaration^] as to what the parties to the agreement really had in mind. The parole evidence rule thus enables parties to rely on written instruments as embodying a complete memorial of their agreement, and to avoid costly and disruptive litigation over the existence of oral and implied terms that may or may not have been contemplated by the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extrinsic evidence . . . to interpret . . . the terms of an unambiguous written instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test for ambiguity is not complexity, but lack of clarity.”
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.