Gagne v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2014
4 district · 4 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 Craig v. Zelian · Michelson v. Sherman · Tzitzon Realty Co. Inc. v. Mustonen · 35 Mass. App. Ct. 705 - Simon v. Simon · Pick v. Bartel
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[SJpecific performance of a contract that does not satisfy the statute of frauds is warranted only “if it is established that the party seeking enforcement, in reasonable reliance on the contract and on the continuing assent of the party against whom enforcement is sought, has so changed his position that injustice can be avoided only by specific enforcement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. Dow“Promissory estoppel may be invoked when a “promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. Culver
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.