Cohen v. Texas Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the existence of an enforceable contract governing a particular subject matter “ordinarily precludes recovery in quasi contract for events arising out of the same subject matter.”
• holding that the existence of an enforceable contract governing a particular subject matter “ordinarily precludes recovery in quasi contract for events arising out of the same subject matter.”
• concluding the choice of “New York’s highly developed body of commercial law . . . ensured uniformity in the interpretation of the contract, and decreased the legal costs associated” ancillary matters
• enforcing parties choice of New York law to govern general distribution agreement because of highly developed body of New York commercial law
• “[T]he Restatement . . . makes clear that the incorporation of one party in the state whose law is chosen under the contract is sufficient to satisfy any applicable contacts requirement.”
• “[T]he Restatement . . . makes clear that the incorporation of one party in the state whose law is chosen under the contract is sufficient to satisfy any applicable contacts requirement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).