Howard v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither party can put the other in default without first having performed, or tendered performance, of his part of the contract. ■ The offer before the final submission, of the case relied on by appellants — even if the tender of a deed after suit commenced could, in any event, be deemed sufficient — was not the tender of a deed to respondents ; it was a mere offer to execute a deed and ‘place it in .the hands of the judge of this court/ and not a tender of an executed deed to respondents.” ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tucker v. Thraves