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Andre v. Maguire’s Empirical Analysis

1940

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

1 district · 39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth (1986), Peabody N.E., Inc. v. Town of Marshfield (1998)

1 district · 39 state decisions

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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 Bowen v. Kimbell · Sipley v. Stickney · Glazer v. Schwartz · Zarthar v. Saliba · Morello v. Levakis

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

  1. “cannot recover on the contract itself without showing complete and strict performance of all its terms.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[g]enerally, '[i]n the absence of special exculpating circumstances an intentional departure from the precise requirements of the contract is not consistent with good faith in the endeavor fully to perform it, and unless such departure is so trifling as to fall within the rule de minimis, it bars all recovery.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.