10 La. App. 136 - Englemann v. Auderer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “<.* * * The parties were capable of consenting, did consent and the object of the-contract being lawful, it is a perfectly good private law between the parties, and, however unwise, or however foolish a man may be to enter into such a contract, the courts do not sit to relieve men of the results of their folly, but sit to enforce private as well as public laws.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hippler v. Argus

2. ““The contract provided that Englemann should have a fixed time within which to sell the property, but that, if within three months after the termination of his contract, it was sold to a purchaser with whom, during the existence of the contract, Englemann had been negotiating, the commission stipulated for in the contract would be paid to Englemann.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McGuire v. Sinnett