Cutler v. Pardridge’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Plaintiff’s case consisted of proof of the individual transactions engaged in at defendant’s request. Defendant did not deny that they took place, or that the plaintiff was his authorized agent. He relied upon affirmative defenses, and the burden of proving them unquestionably rested upon him. Pelouze v. Slaughter, 241 Ill. 215 ; Richelieu, Hotel Co. v. Military Encampment Co., 140 Ill. 248 ; Cothran v. Ellis, 125 Ill. 496 ; Clews v. Jamieson, 182 U. S. 461 . The case, therefore, as tried and submitted to the jury, presented no contention as to plaintiff’s case, whether the transactions he relied on took place and were authorized, but simply whether defendant had established his affirmative defenses, or either of them, that such transactions were invalid and closed out in violation of a contract for credit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 244 Ill. App. 451 - J. B. Margolies Grocery Co. v. Kopman