Dwight v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This is the controlling clause as to the place of delivery. The cars would be either the cars of the plaintiff [purchaser], or those of the railroad company, and in either case they were to be provided by the plaintiff, and not by the defendant. The cars, therefore, being to be provided by the plaintiff, the duty was imposed upon him to show he was at least ready with the cars, or willing to provide them, and to have notified the defendant of such readiness and willingness.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Alpha Portland Cement Co.

2. ““Upon which of the parties to what has been termed the ‘sold note’ of January 15, 1880, rested the obligation to act first? It is a well-established principle of the law that in a contract for sale and delivery of goods ‘free on board’ vessel the seller is under no obligation to act until the buyer names the ship to which the delivery is to be made; for, until he knows that, the seller could not put the goods on board.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Von Harten & Clark, Inc. v. Nevels