Adams v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ... we are satisfied that the contract was an executory one and the appellants’ right to recover was subject to the performance of certain conditions precedent, viz., the payment for, and the removal of, the oats within fifteen days from the date of the contract.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robinson v. Thoma

2. ““I have this day sold to J. Q. Adams & Co. 60 or 70 tons of good merchantable white oats . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robinson v. Thoma