7 Mass. App. Ct. 798 - Bendetson v. Coolidge’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 15 Mass. App. Ct. 4 - Shain Investment Co., Inc. v. Cohen (1982), 35 Mass. App. Ct. 360 - Hogan v. Riemer (1993)
5 district · 22 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 Snow v. Van Dam · Glackin v. Bennett · Sprague v. Kimball · Cleaveland v. Malden Savings Bank · 4 Mass. App. Ct. 182 - Michelson v. Aronson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the writing shows on its face that it is the entire agreement of the parties and ‘comprises all that is necessary to constitute a contract, it is presumed that they have placed the terms of their bargain in this form to prevent misunderstanding and dispute, intending to be a complete and final statement of the whole transaction.’”
4 later decisions 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.