VanVoorhees v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Forrest Associates v. Passamaquoddy Tribe (2000), Pelletier v. Pelletier (2012)
4 district · 28 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 Currier v. Cyr · Dehahn v. Innes · Banville v. Huckins · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Proia · First NH Banks Granite State v. Scarborough
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny home construction contract for more than $ 3,000 in materials or labor must be in writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet v. Breivogel“a loss of money or property as a result of a [UTPA] violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweet v. Breivogel
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.