Rice v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rights of the plaintiff as defined by the judgment are the same as those he had held under the contract. . . . And doubtless in the situation presented it would be inequitable to allow the plaintiff to recover the land without giving the defendant ample opportunity to make payment of the amount still owing on the purchase price. ... It would be manifestly unjust either to permit the plaintiff to repossess himself of it because of the defendant’s refusal under some misconception of the law to complete the payment upon demand, or to permit the defendant to retain it without paying for it.” (p. 600.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gustason v. DeHaven