166 Md. App. 286 - Mathis v. Hargrove’s Empirical Analysis

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12 district · 14 state decisions

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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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] court is to determine from the language of the agreement, what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have understood the contract to mean at the time the contract was entered into; when the language of the contract is plain and unambiguous, there is no room for construction as the courts will presume that the parties meant what they expressed.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. CapitalSource Finance, LLC v. Delco Oil, Inc. · 46 F. Supp. 3d 590 - Stewart v. Morgan State University

2. “[W]e now hold that a denial (as distinguished from a grant) of a summary judgment motion, as well as foregoing the ruling on such a motion either temporarily until later in the proceedings or for resolution by trial of the general issue, involves not only pure legal questions but also an exercise of discretion as to whether the decision should be postponed until it can be supported by a complete factual record; and we further hold that on appeal, absent clear abuse ..., the manner in which this discretion is exercised will not be disturbed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Md. App. 614 - Bowser v. Resh

3. “[i]t is the parties' agreement that ultimately determines whether there has been a breach.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kantsevoy v. Lumenr LLC