9 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 42 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 Robino-Bay Court Plaza, LLC v. West Willow-Bay Court LLC.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robino-Bay Court Plaza, LLC v. West Willow-Bay Court LLC Anchor | neutral | “the presumption that the parties are bound by the language of the agreement they negotiated applies with even greater force when the parties are sophisticated entities that have engaged in arms-length negotiations.” | 10 |
| 2 | XL Specialty Insurance v. WMI Liquidating Trust | green | “the underlying purpose of the ripeness principle is to conserve limited judicial resources and to avoid rendering a legally binding decision that could result in premature and possibly unsound lawmaking.” | 7 |
| 3 | State Ex Rel. Mitchell v. Wolcott | green | “the trial court may deny summary judgment in a case where there is reason to believe that the better course would be to proceed to a full trial.” | 4 |
| 4 | Alexander Industries, Inc. v. Hill | green | “the court maintains the discretion to deny summary judgment if it decides a more thorough development of the record would clarify the law or its application.” | 4 |
| 5 | Town of Cheswold v. Central Delaware Business Park | green | “a number of important concerns have led courts . . . to decline declaratory judgment jurisdiction in instances in which a controversy is deemed to have not yet matured to a point at which judicial action is appropriate.” | 4 |
| 6 | Stuart v. Stuart | green | “once a breach of a covenant is established, the burden is on the breaching party to show that the breach did not contribute materially” | 4 |
| 7 | Diebold Computer Leasing, Inc. v. Commercial Credit Corp. | green | “not only increases the risk of an incorrect judgment in the particular case, but risks, as well, an inappropriate or unnecessary step in the incremental law building process itself.” | 3 |
| 8 | Town of Cheswold v. Central Delaware Business Park | green | “a dispute will be deemed not ripe where the claim is based on uncertain and contingent events that may not occur, or where future events may obviate the need for judicial intervention.” | 3 |
| 9 | RAA Management, LLC v. Savage Sports Holdings, Inc. | green | “because of delaware's strong public policy against intentional fraud, a knowingly false contractual representation can form the basis of a fraud claim, regardless of the degree to which the agreement purports to disclaim tort remedies.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.