Roy v. Danis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2024
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Zamore v. Whitten · Packard v. Central Maine Power Co. · Sevigny v. Home Builders Ass'n of Maine, Inc. · Pendleton v. Sard · Boetsch v. Rockland Jaycees
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a legally binding agreement the parties must have mutually assented to be bound by all its material terms; the assent must be manifested in the contract, either expressly or impliedly; and the contract must be sufficiently definite to enable the court to determine its exact meaning and fix exactly the legal liabilities of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. VanVoorhees v. Dodge
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.