35 Mass. App. Ct. 705 - Simon v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 283 N.J. Super. 471 - McBride v. Minstar, Inc. (1994), Northrup v. Brigham (2005)
6 district · 25 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 Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp. · Glass v. Hulbert · Loranger Construction Corp. v. E. F. Hauserman Co. · 2 Mass. App. Ct. 722 - Cellucci v. Sun Oil Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a court's function . . . to determine what provisions are essential to an agreement sought to be enforced and whether an omitted provision can be supplied by implication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the case of a lease or an agreement to lease, the duration of the leasehold interest is central to that undertaking. It is an essential element in a lease for a term that there be a demise for a period definitely fixed or at least capable of definite ascertainment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any failure on the part of [the party to be bound] to read or comprehend the release language was, in the absence of fraud, immaterial.”
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.