Williams and Sons Erectors Inc v. South Carolina Steel Corporation South Carolina Steel Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1176 · 1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 124 Wash. 2d 816 - Berschauer/Phillips Construction Co. v. Seattle School District No. 1 (1994), Mellon Bank Na v. United Bank Corporation of New York (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance · Glanzer v. . Shepard · Seiden Associates, Inc. v. Anc Holdings, 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ambiguity without the existence of extrinsic evidence of intent presents not an issue of fact, but an issue of law for the court to rule on.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'wholly unambiguous.' " Wards Co. v. Stamford Ridgeway Assocs., 761 F.2d 117 , 120 (2d Cir.1985) (quoting Heyman v. Commerce & Indus. Ins. Co., 524 F.2d 1317 , 1320 (2d Cir.1975)); see also Williams & Sons Erectors v. South Carolina Steel, 983 F.2d 1176 , 1183 (2d Cir.1993) ("Summary judgment may be granted when the provisions of a contract convey a definite and precise meaning, absent any ambiguity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“lower threshold for a plaintiff to meet when attempting to hold a defendant liable for information negligently supplied for the guidance of others”
1 later decision 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.