Overly v. Treasurer & Receiver General

How courts have described this case

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

• in the usual case, “[u]se of the words ‘about,’ ‘more or less,’ and the like, to qualify a statement of quantity indicates that the quantity of land is not the essence of the contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rouse v. Munroe
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1983-02-10· cited 50×
• Dixon v. Morse
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1969-12-16· cited 7×
• Paull v. Kelly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-12-13· cited 6×
• McGovern v. McGovern
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-09-16· cited 5×
• Henry v. Borushko
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2012-07-31· cited 4×
• Putignano v. Treasurer & Receiver General
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-13· cited 3×
• Lassman v. HSBC Bank USA., N.A. (In re DeMore)
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-04-29· cited 3×
• William D. Thorp v. Charles Smith, and Helen Kruger and Max Kruger, Intervenors. Appeal of Helen Kruger and Max Kruger
  Third Circuit· 1965-04-27
• R & D Corp. v. New Bedford Redevelopment Authority
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-07-16
• Nineberg v. County of Cook
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1967-09-11

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Powell v. Clark
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1809-09-15· cited 55×
• Pybus v. Grasso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-02-09· cited 54×
• Noble v. Googins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1868-03-15· cited 33×
• Sullivan v. Ward
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-12-29· cited 30×
• Burke v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-05-23· cited 18×
• Pickman v. Trinity Church
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-06-26· cited 16×