Crisler v. Crisler’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 891 So. 2d 203 - West v. West · Tupelo Redevelopment Agency v. Abernathy · 886 So. 2d 714 - Farmland Mut. Ins. Co. v. Scruggs · 807 So. 2d 438 - In Re Estate of Hodges · 458 So. 2d 1051 - Frazier v. Northeast Miss. Shopping Center
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.
“[P]arties are bound by what they promise in writing. But, we are not bound to adopt a construction not compelled by the instrument in which we would have to believe no man in his right mind would have agreed to. A construction leading to an absurd, harsh or unreasonable result in a contract should be avoided, unless the terms are express and free of doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLeod v. McLeod“If an ambiguity is found to exist, its interpretation is a matter for the trier of fact[,] which we review under a substantial evidence/manifest error standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our standard of review of a determination of ambiguity, or the lack thereof, of a [deed], and its subsequent interpretation is two-tiered.”
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.