Glenn v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true that in an action ex contractu, where the bailor relies upon the ordinary contract of bailment without predicating his right of recovery upon the bailee’s failure to exercise due care, the bailor makes out a prima facie case when he shows the delivery of the article to the bailee and the latter’s failure to return it on demand or as agreed upon. In this situation the bailee may escape liability by showing that his failure to redeliver was because the property was lost or destroyed without his fault, but this is an affirmative defense, which he must prove.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Canty v. Wyatt Storage Corp.

2. ““If any attorney received money for his client and fail to pay the same on demand, it may be recovered from him by warrant, or by suit, or motion, according to the amount, and damages in lieu of interest, not exceeding fifteen per centum per annum until paid, may be awarded against him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 F. Supp. 605 - Smith v. Travelers Indemnity Company

3. “By statute in Virginia, it is provided that: 'Every attorney at law shall be liable to his client for any damage sustained by him by the neglect of his duty as such attorney.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thorsen v. Richmond Soc'y for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals