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← 473 MASS 540 - EventMonitor, Inc. v. Leness

EventMonitor, Inc. v. Leness’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 2020
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co. · Flesner v. Technical Communications Corp. · Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES · Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. · MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL WHOLESALE ELECTRIC v. Danvers

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

  1. “when it involves an essential and inducing feature of the contract.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A reviewing court considers extrinsic evidence only when a term in a contract is ambiguous”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “We review a court's 'interpretation of the meaning of a term in a contract,' a question of law, de novo.”
    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.