Shann v. Dunk’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
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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.
“Buyer will present to Seller a purchase agreement basically including [the terms and conditions of the November 25 Agreement and] a pledge of all shares acquired to seller as security to the seller for fulfillment of the agreement....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shann v. Dunk“the four corners of the contract ... place an emphasis on the non-compete clause, and thus, the Court will not look beyond the agreement in order to determine whether the parties actually meant what they said.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shann v. Dunk“the [November 25] agreement is silent as to whether [Shann] would be personally liable to [Dunk] for the post-closing payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shann v. Dunk
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.