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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Lewiston Daily Sun v. School Administrative District No. 43.

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1 Lewiston Daily Sun v. School Administrative District No. 43 Anchor
me · 1999
green “courts can only decide cases before them that involve justiciable controversies.” 6
2 Maine AFL-CIO v. Superintendent of Insurance
me · 1998
green “to determine if an issue is ripe for review, we focus on the fitness of the issue for judicial decision and the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.” 3
3 Morrill v. Morrill
me · 1998
green “breach of contract damages, as a general proposition, should be based on the injured party's expectation interest, defined as its interest in having the benefit of its bargain by being put in as good a position as it would have been in had the contract been performed” 3
4 Lamson v. Cote
me · 2001
green “prescriptive easement claim was not ripe for adjudication until an owner of the land in dispute was declared.” 3
5 Dubois Livestock, Inc. v. Town of Arundel
me · 2014
green “ripeness is a question of law that we review de novo.” 3

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