McElhannon v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) [T]here must be a statute which prescribes certain actions or defines a standard of conduct, either explicitly or implicitly, (2) the defendant must violate the statute, (3) the plaintiff must be in the class of persons sought to be protected by the statute, and (4) the harm or injury to the plaintiff must generally be of the type the legislature through the statute sought to prevent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Johnstone v. City of Albuquerque · Alcantar v. Sanchez

2. “`does not apply to sales of real estate.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kysar v. Amoco Production Co. · Elliott Industries Limited Partnership v. Bp America Production Company Bp J

3. “[t]o the extent goods and services are combined to create a structure that is permanently affixed to realty, they are understood to have been `converted' to realty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Elliott Industries Limited Partnership v. Bp America Production Company Bp J