Patterson v. Ervin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Extreme weakness [of mind] will raise an almost necessary presumption of imposition, even when it stops short of legal capacity; and though a contract, in the ordinary course of things, reasonably made with such a person, might be admitted to stand, yet if it appear to be of such a nature as that such a person could not be capable of measuring its extent or importance, its reasonableness or its value, fully and fairly, it cannot be that the law is so much at variance with common sense as to uphold it.” (Patterson v. Ervin, 230 So.2d at 566 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Knight