Erickson v. Borchardt’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. ““The purpose of the action for money had and received is to compel the restitution of ill-gotten gains, and so it does not lie against one who has not himself taken the plaintiff’s money, property or services or received the benefit thereof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Soderlin v. Marquette National Bank