Goebbel v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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. ““It may be added that in no event would plaintiff be permitted to show at the trial of the present action that the contract was not one for the purchase of plaintiff’s stock by defendants, but rather for the return to the plaintiff of his investment of $2,500 in the corporation, for the reason his action is based solely upon an alleged breach of defendants’ agreement to buy his stock. “It is beyond the possibility of dispute that the agreement in question is one of purchase, not repurchase ; the defendants agreed to buy of plaintiff stock originally acquired by him, not from the defendants, but from the corporation.’’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pilcher v. Stadler