McDermott v. Cable’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “■ “The contract set up in the plea is not alleged to he in parol;.and, being such as, by the statute of frauds, is required to be in writing, the presumption is that it is so; and, being in writing, it should have been pleaded with profert, under the provisions of our statute, in order that the court, in the exercise of its appropriate function —the construction of a written contract — might determine whether the contract furnished the defense claimed under it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. Bank of Eureka Springs