Extreme Of Range
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 91 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL24
- Real Property18
- Contracts11
- Torts11
- Civil Procedure10
- Evidence10
- Criminal Law4
- Constitutional Law3
Example wrong choices
first 2014068_retreat_canoe · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BYes, Paul has a right to a jury trial as to every claim, regardless of whether they are equitable in nature.
Why it's attractive
Students see the legal damages claim and swing to a blanket yes.
Why it's wrong
CUT: the rule is not jury for every claim regardless of equitable nature.
14205_fellowship_hall · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice AYes, because this is a proper final judgment, regardless of whether the case was tried at a bench or jury trial.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14208_women_of_the_word · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice CNo, because Lydia did not have actual notice of the class action lawsuit.
Why it's wrong
Choice C is not the credited answer for this item.
14248_lydia_clay_reclamation · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CLydia's Workshop should prevail on both its claim for the equipment costs and its claim for expected profits.
Why it's attractive
It pays both categories even though the stem gives retained land value and retained equipment value.
Why it's wrong
It pays both categories even though the stem gives retained land value and retained equipment value.
14365_imitation_honey · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BThe enforcement powers of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Why it's attractive
Anchor: Fourteenth Amendment enforcement cannot reach purely private conduct.
Why it's wrong
Anchor: Fourteenth Amendment enforcement cannot reach purely private conduct.
14409_sunken_ark_hall · CONTRACTS · Choice DBarnabas is excused under the modern doctrine of supervening impossibility, which includes severe impracticability.
Why it's attractive
The added cost is real, but the answer over-extends the excuse.
Why it's wrong
The added cost is real, but the answer over-extends the excuse.
14437_lydias_verse_card_boxes · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because Barnabas’s letter created a one-year option contract.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14441_naomi_scripture_workshop_commission · CONTRACTS · Choice C23%, because the parties' prior payment practice is given greater weight than trade usage.
Why it's attractive
C elevates one prior generous payment over the signed percentage.
Why it's wrong
C elevates one prior generous payment over the signed percentage.
14467_psalm_tutor_installments · CONTRACTS · Choice A$1,200 plus the accrued interest, because Mary’s unexcused failure to pay three installments is a material breach.
Why it's attractive
The answer jumps from three missed installments to the whole balance.
Why it's wrong
The answer jumps from three missed installments to the whole balance.
14492_psalm_lantern_kits · CONTRACTS · Choice DDaniel must accept the 19 kits but is entitled to cancel the rest of the contract.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
14532_scripture_audio_booth · CONTRACTS · Choice BNothing, because neither Martha nor Stephen took steps to avoid the consequences of Barnabas's breach.
Why it's attractive
The answer treats a missed mitigation step as destroying the whole claim.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats a missed mitigation step as destroying the whole claim.
14560_death_qualified_choir · CRIMINAL · Choice BReverse both.
Why it's attractive
reverses more than the only argument can reach
Why it's wrong
reverses more than the only argument can reach
14562_chapel_bank_stop · CRIMINAL · Choice DYes, because the confession was the fruit of both a Fourth Amendment violation and a Miranda violation.
Why it's attractive
fails both axes
Why it's wrong
fails both axes
14570_manger_tote · CRIMINAL · Choice BDeny the motion, because Ruth was about to leave on the city shuttle and exigent circumstances existed.
Why it's attractive
The answer turns ordinary travel into an emergency label.
Why it's wrong
The answer turns ordinary travel into an emergency label.
14574_jericho_wall_patrol_statement · CRIMINAL · Choice BGrant the motion on either ground stated.
Why it's attractive
It combines two failed grounds and treats the combination as stronger.
Why it's wrong
It combines two failed grounds and treats the combination as stronger.
14599_bethany_stoneworks_inventory · CRIMINAL · Choice Adenied, because warrantless administrative inspections of commercial premises are valid without a warrant.
Why it's attractive
The answer says commercial premises generally, while the stem gives a special regulated industry.
Why it's wrong
The answer says commercial premises generally, while the stem gives a special regulated industry.
14619_peters_two_burden_instruction · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice AViolated by the instructions as to both issues.
Why it's attractive
Highest-pull trap: students see two defendant burdens and conclude both violate due process.
Why it's wrong
Over-applies the element-burden rule to both issues.
Spot it next time
Underline the statute and classify each issue separately.
14633_galilee_cafe · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CYes, because he failed to retreat even though there was an opportunity available.
Why it's attractive
It uses the stem's retreat-jurisdiction fact and the near-door fact to make retreat feel dispositive.
Why it's wrong
Overextends retreat doctrine to nondeadly force.
Spot it next time
Apply Gold Key: nondeadly force does not require retreat.
14654_fellowship_trail · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CIf the jurisdiction follows either the M'Naghten or the ALI Model Penal Code test for insanity.
Why it's attractive
It contains the correct ALI/MPC route and feels safer because it says either.
Why it's wrong
The answer expands the correct ALI/MPC route to include M'Naghten, but the M'Naghten half does not fit.
Spot it next time
For 'either' answers, require both named routes to fit the facts.
14727_saddle_camp_report · CRIMINAL · Choice Ahis silence was not the proximate cause of Thomas's death.
Why it's attractive
The choice says causation is absent even though the stem leaves foreseeability pressure in place.
Why it's wrong
The choice says causation is absent even though the stem leaves foreseeability pressure in place.
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