Kriel v. Cullison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In January, 1931, when the purchaser had the land described in that contract surveyed, it was found that the ‘twenty acre’ tract, known as the ‘White Hall property,’ actually contained 11.52 acres, of which 1.08 acres were subject to a railroad right of way, the ‘five acre’ tract known as the ‘Dayhoff’ lot, 7.13 acres, the ‘ten acre’ tract known as the ‘Worthington’ lot, 10 acres, and the ‘nine acre’ tract known as ‘Hoover’s Lot,’ 3.748 acres. The aggregate acreage of these four lots as estimated in the contract was 44 acres, while the actual acreage shown by the survey was 31.32 [acres], a deficiency of 12.68 acres.” 165 Md. at 405 , 169 A. at 204-05 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cavacos v. Sarwar

2. ““If the representation of the quantity be mere matter of description, and not of the essence of the contract, as where there are qualifying words, as ‘more or less/ or ‘by estimation/ the vendee must be understood as assuming upon himself the risk of the quantity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carozza v. Peacock Land Corp.