Dixon v. Certainteed Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2014
2 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. · Bacchus Industries, Inc. v. Arvin Industries, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court’s initial inquiry focuses on whether the indemnification provisions in the construction contract are ambiguous. Missouri Pacific R.R. Co. v. Kansas Gas & Elec. Co., 862 F.2d 796, 799 (10th Cir.1988) (citing McBride Elec., Inc. v. Putt’s Tuff, Inc., 9 Kan.App.2d 548 , 685 P.2d 316, 321 (1984)). If the court can ascertain the intent of the parties “by construing the document from its four corners,” the contract is unambiguous, “and rules of construction applicable to ambiguous contracts do not apply.” Brown v. Lang, 234 Kan. 610 , 675 P.2d 842, 846 (1984). This inquiry involves a matter of law to be decided by the court. Fountain v. Se-Kan Asphalt Servs., Inc., 17 Kan.App.2d 323 , 837 P.2d 835, 839 (1992).”
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.