Peoples v. Ault’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As to the plea of the statute of limitations and the bar of the settlement made in January 1908, - it is sufficient to say that, if the appellee was entitled to more than was paid him at that time by reason of the net profits being reduced by expenditures the illegality of which fact was concealed from him by the appellant, the statute operates only from the time such fraud was discovered, or could have been discovered by due diligence. Section 14, art. 57, of the Code. Under the facts in the record we are of the opinion that the appellee had no knowledge of what these extra expenses were for, and was led to accept them in making his settlement as correct by reason of his implicit confidence in the integrity of his employer.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parr v. Insurance Co. of North America