Travis v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““The parties were dealing at arm’s length through competent counsel and that the counsel for the [wife] had every technique and method of ascertaining the facts in support of any litigation they might desire to institute rather than execute said agreement; that the agreement between the parties dated June 9th, I960, is an agreement fairly and voluntarily made and intended as a complete and final settlement of all claims between the parties, including the wife’s claim to maintenance, and is valid and enforceable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henderson v. Henderson

2. “[T]he act upon which the person bases his right to no longer be bound by the contract must involve an unqualified refusal by the other party to perform, and should, in its legal effect, amount to a determination not to be bound by, or perform, the contract in the future. A mere dispute as to the manner of the performance, a misunderstanding as to the manner in which it shall be per formed, not persisted in, does not justify a rescission by the other party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc.