Childers v. Pumping Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 565 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
5 federal appellate ·
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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Coker v. Coker · R & P Enterprises v. LaGuarta, Gavrel & Kirk, Inc. · English v. Fischer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] contract is not ambiguous merely because the parties disagree upon the correct interpretation.”
2 later decisions 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.