887 So. 2d 497 - Levin v. May’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Dupuy v. Dupuy · Hobson v. Board of Elections · Clement A. Evans & Co., Inc. v. McAlpine · 867 So. 2d 723 - Motorola, Inc. v. Associated Indem. Corp.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error may concern a cause when it bears on the nature of the contract, or the thing that is the contractual object or a substantial quality of that thing, or the person or the qualities of the other party, or the law, or any other circumstance that the parties regarded, or should in good faith have regarded, as a cause of the obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] contract may not be dissolved when the obligor has rendered a substantial part of the performance and the part not rendered does not substantially impair the interest of the obligee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prevents a party from receding from a contract on a mere excuse.”
1 later decision 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.