Harper v. Albright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““It is admitted that appellee and Harper entered into the oral agreement, and that appellee gave Harper a check for $100 as part payment which was accepted and cashed. It is further admitted that the total purchase price was to be $3,000 and that the balance of $2,900 was to be paid later. The trial court found, and we think the evidence supports the findings that: Appellee was to secure a loan (on the land in question and other lands belonging to him) to pay the balance of the purchase price, and that this arrangement was made before appellant, Harper, tried to revoke the sale. At about the same time the agreement was entered into or shortly thereafter appellee entered into possession of the land by cutting timber thereon, by repairing fences, by placing cattle thereon to pasture, and by renting the ‘cotton allotment’ for the year 1956. Part payment of the purchase price and the taking of possession by appellee took the oral agreement out of the statute of frauds.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 284 F. Supp. 626 - Gentry v. Hanover Insurance Company