751 F. Supp. 2d 304 - Backman v. SMIRNOV’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Calero-Cerezo v. United States Department of Justice · McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. · J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth · Schwanbeck v. Federal-Mogul Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“In Massachusetts, the elements of a quantum meruit recovery are: (1) the plaintiff conferred a reasonable benefit upon the defendants; (2) defendants accepted the services with the reasonable expectation of compensating the plaintiff; and (3) the plaintiff provided the services with the reasonable expectation of receiving compensation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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