Price v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Defendant ordered three hundred and eighty dollars’ worth of jewelry from plaintiffs’ stock, to be made up of the articles'named in the order, but no definite quality, price or number of any one or more of these articles is mentioned. The first item, ‘buckles or pins,’ might be filled with all buckles and no pins, or with all pins and no buckles, or with both buckles and pins, at fifteen, twenty-five, thirty, fifty, seventy-five cents, one or two dollars per dozen, and it might be filled bv one dozen of either, or both buckles and pins, or with one hundred dozen of either or both. So with every other article named in the order, quantity, quality nor price are anywhere mentioned, therefore, the subject matter of the contract is too indefinite to be capable of identification.” (p. 57.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price v. Weisner