Lebowitz v. Mingus’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““must be performance ‘unequivocally referable’ to the agreement, performance which alone and without the aid of words or promise is unintelligible as or at least extraordinary unless as an accident of ownership assured, if not existing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gray v. Fill (In Re Fill)

2. “What is done must itself supply the key to what is promised. It is not enough that what is promised may give significance to what is done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gray v. Fill (In Re Fill)