Cofman v. Acton Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Antonellis v. Northgate Construction Corp. · Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. v. Massachusetts Port Authority · SAPC, Inc. v. Lotus Development Corp. · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 336 - FAY, SPOFFORD & THORNDIKE v. Mass. Port Auth.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An expression may be complete ... and yet ambiguous. Indeed, human limitations make it inevitable that every expression will be less than complete in a thoroughly comprehensive sense. Ambiguity will remain about some matters that might have been addressed and were not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not address an eventuality such as a reverse stock split,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“), the following one time payment: the sum of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.