Barbour v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Plaintiff pleaded the Idaho statute of frauds and offered proof that the defendant’s oral promise to pay her father’s debt did not fall within the ban of the Idaho statute and that it would be enforceable in that state. Ordinarily a contract which is valid where made is valid everywhere, but there is a well-known exception to that rule. Briefly stated, the exception is that where the contract contravenes thé settled public policy of the state whose tribunal is invoked to enforce the contract, an action on that contract will not be entertained. (Third Nat. Bank of New York v. Steel, 129 Mich. 434 ; Heaton v. Eldridge & Higgins, 56 Ohio St. 87 ; Cooley’s Constitutional Limitations, 7th ed., p. 178; 9 Cyc. 674-677; 5 R. C. L. 917, 918, 944, 945.)” (p. 617.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lemen v. Sidener · 630 F. Supp. 125 - Dow Chemical Corp. v. Weevil-Cide Co., Inc.