Gosselin v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “Rules such as [Rule 56.1] "were developed by the district courts in this circuit in response to this court’s concern that, absent such rules, summary judgment practice could too easily become a game of cat-and-mouse, giving rise to the 'specter of district court judges being unfairly sandbagged by unadvertised factual issues.’ Such rules are a distinct improvement — and parties ignore them at their peril.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 529 F. Supp. 2d 254 - Zimmermann v. Cambridge Credit Counseling Corp.

2. “(1) that the would-be partner has held himself out as a partner; (2) that such holding out was done by the defendant directly or with his consent; (3) that the plaintiff had knowledge of such holding out; and (4) that the plaintiff relied on the ostensible partnership to his prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 22 Mass. L. Rptr. 125 - Zichelle v. Parigian

3. “Lawyers may state or imply that they practice in a partnership or other organization only when that is the fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 367 F. Supp. 2d 35 - Andrews v. Elwell