No. 03-1295’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 1 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial court has the power to summarily enforce a settlement agreement entered into by the litigants while the litigation is pending before it. We review the district court’s decision to enforce such an agreement for an abuse of discretion. An abuse of discretion occurs when the district court based its decision on an erroneous conclusion of law or where there is no rational basis in the evidence for the ruling. Issues involving the formation and construction of a purported settlement agreement are resolved by applying state contract law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 250 F. App'x 256 - Evans-Carmichael v. United States

2. “When the language of a contract contains a latent ambiguity and one of the parties is in fact assenting to something different from what the other party agrees to, the upshot of that 'mistake' is that there was never a meeting of the minds as to a material term of the contract, and consequently there was never any contract at all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Forsyth

3. “allows relief only if the mistakenly entered contract was unconscionable or the defendant knew or had reason to know of the mistake,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 390 F. Supp. 3d 1289 - Tatonka Capital Corp. v. Connelly