Bascle v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ * * * the jurisprudence of the courts of this state [is] to the effect that where one employs the services of another without specifying what compensation will be paid therefor, or where one avails himself of the services of another in the performance of a task, he is bound to compensate the person so employed or who performs such a service. * * *. This jurisprudence is founded on the moral maxim of the law that no one ought to enrich himself at the expense of another.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brouillette v. National Remodelers & Rebuilders, Inc.

2. “The equity intended by this rule is founded in the christian principle not to do unto others that which we would not wish others should do unto us; and on the moral maxim of the law that no one ought to enrich himself at the expense of another. When the law of the land, and that which the parties have made for themselves by contract, are silent, courts must apply these principles to determine what ought to be incidents to a contract, which are required by equity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 538 So. 2d 569 - Morphy, Makofsky & Masson, Inc. v. CANAL PLACE 2000

3. ““ * * * This irregularity under the jurisprudence of this court is cause for dismissal of the appeal provided the motion to dismiss is filed within the three legal days after the return day allowed for answering the appeal. * * *»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 128 So. 2d 72 - Wischer v. Madison Realty Co.