Beasley v. Boren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““At the threshold of a consideration of the rights of the parties to this litigation, it must be recognized that appellees, who purchased the property while appellant was in possession, were bound by the provisions of any valid agreement as to lease which appellant had with appellees’ vendor. * * * “The provision in the lease for its renewal was indefinite because it failed to fix the rental to be paid during the additional térm. But, because a contract is uncertain in its terms, it does not necessarily follow that it is a nullity. The parties to a contract may, by their mutual actions in carrying it out, furnish an index to its meaning, which the language thereof fails to do. After all, the written instrument is but an evidence of what the signers thereof propose to bind themselves to do, and when, by their conduct in carrying out the agreement, both of the parties to the. contract demonstrate an .intention to heal an uncertainty in the contract, the courts will generally adopt this practical construction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McMillan v. Malvern Gravel Co. · Hoover v. Arkoma Production Co.