Christmas v. Cimarron Realty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Santa Fe Technologies, Inc. v. Argus Networks, Inc. (2001), State Ex Rel. Hooten Construction Co. v. Borsberry Construction Co. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 36 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 41 Ill. 2d 91 - Flood v. Country Mutual Insurance · Brown v. American Bank of Commerce · Gonzales v. United Southwest National Bank · 18 Wash. App. 595 - King County v. Boeing Company · International Service Insurance v. Ross
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts will apply the plain meaning of contract language as written in interpreting terms of a contract”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the terms of the arbitration agreement are to be interpreted by the rules of contract law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in accordance with the regulations of their board”
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.