189 Or. App. 258 - Hughes v. Misar’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n the absence of some communicated condition regarding the postponement of the binding effect of their mutual assent, such as a provision in the [document] or a statement by one of the parties, the objective meaning of the parties' action was that the agreed terms were binding immediately”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 209 Or. App. 120 - Dalton v. Robert Jahn Corp.

2. “When parties agree on the essential terms of a contract and there is nothing left for future negotiations, the fact that they also intended there to be a future writing that expresses their agreement more formally does not affect the immediately binding nature of the agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. O'Neil v. Bunge Corp.

3. “Our holding is consistent with the general rule of contract law that parties may intend a writing simply as a memorial to express their already consummated contract. If they fail to agree on the writing the contract is still valid.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. O'Neil v. Bunge Corp.