Wallingford v. Butcher’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wescott v. Allstate Insurance · Cardinali v. Planning Board of Lebanon · Tallwood Land & Development Co. v. Botka · Haskell v. Planning Bd. of Town of Yarmouth · Winter v. Casco Bank and Trust 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find it difficult to imagine a real-life situation in which a “course of dealing” between the parties can upon motion for summary judgment be properly postured to eliminate issues of fact. An evidentia-ry exploration of the “course of dealing” must necessarily involve all communications written or oral as well as the actions of the parties in reliance thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the facts before the court so conclusively preclude ... [a party's] recovery' that a judgment in favor of the other party is the only possible result.”
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.