Shawmut-Canton LLC v. Great Spring Waters of America, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 district · 10 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Relief is only appropriate in situations where a mistake of both parties has such a material effect on the agreed exchange of performances as to upset the very basis for the contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jalbert v. SEC

2. “a party cannot avoid a contract merely because the parties are mistaken as to an assumption, even though significant, on which the contract was made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jalbert v. SEC

3. “the sum agreed upon by the parties at the time of the execution of the contract represents a reasonable estimate of the actual damages,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Greenwich Insurance Company