Larson v. Stowe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * In the case of prolonged disability from injuries, the compelling need for immediate cash provides an economic compulsion that may lead to hasty and improvident settlements, even though fraud and undue influence be wholly absent. It is submitted that by reason of the special interest of the public in preventing injured persons from unnecessarily becoming burdens upon society in consequence of their improvident settlement of injuries, the well-developed tendency of the law — which though acknowledged in practice is usually not acknowledged in name — is to adopt a more liberal rule for the setting aside of releases in these cases than otherwise obtains. In the case of a minor, who in fact is not possessed of unlimited contractual competence in his own right, justification for a more liberal rule is manifest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doud v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

2. ““* * * Laymen cannot reasonably be expected to go beyond a physician’s professional diagnosis in ascertaining a person’s injuries.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doud v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.