Park v. Depriest’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If any person shall interfere with, entice away, knowingly employ, or induce a laborer or renter, who has contracted with another person for a specified time, to leave his employer or the leased premises before the expiration of his contract, without the consent of the employer or landlord, he shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace or circuit court, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in addition shall be liable to such employer or landlord for all advances made by him to said renter or laborer by virtue of his contract, whether verbal or written, with said renter or laborer, and for all damages which he may have sustained by reason thereof.””

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

2. ““We think there is nothing in the statute preventing a tenant from breaching his rental contract with his landlord, and vice versa, and then seeking* employment elsewhere, provided, of course, the subsequent employer or landlord did not interfere with the original employment, or entice or induce the tenant to leave his first employer or landlord before the expiration of the rental contract.””

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