Smith v. Eiger’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]here a creditor, in advance of an offer to pay, or in response to such offer, informs the party under obligation to pay that he will not accept the amount actually due in discharge of the indebtedness, the party under obligation to pay is relieved of the duty of tendering the amount actually due.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Telemark Development Group, Inc. v. Mengelt

2. “will not allow the ends of justice to be perverted or defeated by the omission of an unimportant or useless act, which nothing but a mere technicality could require.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Telemark Development Group, Inc. v. Mengelt