Young v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably C.R. Anthony Co. v. Loretto Mall Partners (1991), Levenson v. Mobley (1987)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Sierra Blanca Sales Co., Inc. v. Newco Industries, Inc. · Keeth Gas Co., Inc. v. Jackson Creek Cattle Co. · Jaeco Pump Co. v. Inject-O-Meter Manufacturing Co. · Marchant v. McDonald · Leonard v. Barnes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that we have to speculate demonstrates the ambiguity of the agreement.”
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.