Levy v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 27 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. ““The law refuses to enforce illegal contracts as a rule, not out of regard for the party objecting, nor for any wish to protect his interests, but from reasons of public policy. Whenever, therefore, the illegality of the contract appears, whether alleged in the pleadings or made known for the first time in the evidence, it is fatal to the case. That defect cannot be gotten rid of either by a failure to plead it or by agreeing to waive it in the most solemn manner. The law will not enforce contracts founded in its violation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dunlop v. Baker

2. ““It is a well-settled principle of law that the courts will not aid a party to enforce an agreement for the furtherance of objects forbidden by the statute, or by common law, or general policy of law, or to recover damages for its breach, or when the agreement has been executed in whole or in part by payment of money to recover it back.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dunlop v. Baker

3. “`[w]hen a statute gives a new remedy, and contains no negative, express or implied, of the old remedy, the new one provided by it is cumulative, and the party may elect between the two.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sup'rs of Stafford County v. Crucible, Inc.