Barnes v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “Thus, promissory estoppel has broad applicability to prevent injustice, but where a promise is unclear or the alleged harms are unconnected to the inconsistent disposition, the doctrine does not risk imposing its own inequity against the party sought to be estopped.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A&P Enters., LLC v. SP Grocery of Lynchburg, LLC

2. “Unlike a contract which requires a meeting of the * minds and consideration, promissory estoppel looks at a promise, its subsequent effect on the promisee, and in certain cases bars the promisor from making an inconsistent disposition of the property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A&P Enters., LLC v. SP Grocery of Lynchburg, LLC

3. “Specifically, the doctrine's elements represent a balancing between affording a remedy where contract law cannot, and ensuring the doctrine's application is not, itself, an inequity against the party estopped.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A&P Enters., LLC v. SP Grocery of Lynchburg, LLC