Barrett v. . Weber’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A threat to sue her at law for the value of the goods that had gone into her possession, or to prosecute her husband and nephew criminally for the felony, may have influenced her mind, and induced her to sign the mortgage; but whether this operated to coerce her was, under all the circumstances, a question of fact which has been found against her. In order to avoid the contract on the ground that it was made under fear of imprisonment, the imprisonment, threatened or feared, must be~ shown to have operated upon her mind so as to deprive the contract of the character of a voluntary act, and the evidence was not of such a conclusive nature as to require such a finding. In order to avoid the bond and mortgage on the ground that they were given to compound a felony, it was necessary to show that there was some agreement or promise on the part of the mortgagee to forbear prosecution for the crime, or to suppress evidence that would tend to prove it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bishop v. Howe