Interwest Construction v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Sharon Steel Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1997), SME Industries, Inc. v. Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, Inc. (2001)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 State v. Pena · Beck v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · Winegar v. Froerer Corp. · Harline v. Barker · Williams v. Melby
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(on] grounds of public policy, parties to a contract may not generally exempt a seller of a product from strict tort liability for physical harm to a user or consumer unless the exemption term 'is fairly bargained for and is consistent with the policy underlying that [strict tort] Hability'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[oluce a contract is found to be ambiguous, a court may consider extrinsic evidence to determine its meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“marshal the evidence in support of the findings and then demonstrate that despite this evidence, the trial court's findings are so lacking in support as to be against the clear weight of the evidence, thus making them clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.