Scott v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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

1. ““ISSUE NO. 1 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Charles K. Campbell offered to manage and remodel the Les Chateaux Apartments for the amounts paid him by Northwestern National Life Insurance Company and an option to purchase the apartments at the cash cost to Northwestern National Life Insurance Company? Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. We the jury answer We do If you have answered Issue No. 1 ‘We do’, then answer Issue No. 2. If you have answered Issue No. 1 ‘We do not’, then do not answer Issues 2 through 9. ISSUE NO, 2 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Northwestern National Life Insurance Company accepted the foregoing offer? Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. We the jury answer We do If you have answered Issue No. 2 ‘We do not’, then answer Issue No. 3. If you have answered Issue No. 2 ‘We do’, then next answer Issue No. 4. ISSUE NO. 3 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Northwestern National Life Insurance Company caused Charles K. Campbell to believe that his offer had been accepted? Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. We the jury answer_ ISSUE NO. 4 What do you find from a preponderance of the evidence to be the increase in value, if any, of the apartments resulting from Charles K. Campbell’s management and remodeling? State the amount, if any, in dollars and cents. We the jury answer $400,000 (Four hundred thousand dollars). ISSUE NO. 5 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the remodeling and improvements m”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.

2. ““Notwithstanding the fact that contracts like that upon which respondent relies are within the statute of frauds, the party who has performed the services contemplated by the contract is not without remedy. By reason of the statute, he may not bring an action to enforce the other party’s obligation to convey or devise real estate, but he may sue for and recover the reasonable value of the services rendered ... To prevent injustice the law implies, instead of the promised conveyance or devise of real estate, the obligation to pay the reasonable value of the services, or, as said in Laughnan v. Laughnan’s Estate, 165 Wis. 348 , 162 N.W. 169 , the law substitutes for the promise to convey or devise real estate as a consideration for the services the promise to pay their reasonable value. In such case the suit is not for the enforcement of the parol contract; it is on the implied contract to pay for the services performed . While the contract is unenforceable by reason of the statute of frauds, it is nevertheless important to the plaintiff, suing for the value of services, to establish the contract, in order to show that the services were not gratuitously rendered and that the suit is not barred by limitation . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.