This agreement was, in retrospect, a mistake caused by haste and a burdened mind. Facher and Cheeseman were no more likely to stay within the terms of the agreement than Schlichtmann would have been in their place. Schlichtmann was uneasy and skittish, and this first mistake led him to a series of further mistakes, mistakes of intemperance.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 1172