Tauber v. Quan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a rule, “one who signs a contract has a duty to read it and is obligated according to its terms.” Pers Travel, Inc. v. Canal Square Assocs., 804 A.2d 1108, 1110-11 (D.C.2002) (citation omitted). See also Restatement (Seoond) op CONTRACTS § 157, cmt. b (“Generally, one who assents to a writing is presumed to know its contents and cannot escape being bound by its terms merely by contending that he did not read them; his assent is deemed to cover unknown as well as known terms.”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Curtis v. Gordon

2. “); see also Tauber v. Quan , 938 A.2d 724 , 732 (D.C. 2007) ("[I]t is routine for courts to enforce contracts to purchase real estate by ordering that they be specifically performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruth Saunders v. Stephen T. Hudgens

3. “When land is the subject matter of the agreement, the legal remedy is assumed to be inadequate, since each parcel of land is unique.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shvartser v. Lekser