Cort v. Lassard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a result of these English authorities, while conceding that specific performance of such contracts could not be enforced, the jurisdiction is established that relief may be granted on a contract for such services, even though it contains no negative clause, upon the ground that a contract to act or play at a particular place for a specified time necessarily implies a prohibition against performing at any other place during that period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Essex Specialty Co., Inc. v. Bueschel

2. ““In the nature of things, it implies a regulation against acting at any other theater during that time. ® * * According to^ the true spirit of such agreement, the implication precluding the defendant from acting at any other theater during the period for which he has agreed to act for plaintiff follows as Inevitably and logically as if it was expressed.” .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southwest Missouri Light Co. v. City of Joplin