Wright v. Rochner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In entering the judgment the court below allowed the amount of the jury verdict and in addition thereto awarded interest from December 8, 1958, the date on which the last of the soy beans were sold by Wright to Rollison. Appellants question the right of the court to award interest from that date and argue that interest should run only from the date of judgment. The record is silent as to whether the jury in its verdict included interest as a part of the award and there was no instruction ordering them to do so. In the absence of a showing that interest was included in the jury verdict, we cannot say the court’s addition of interest was error. As we said above, there was substantial evidence on which the jury could base the verdict returned, [citing cases]. One who has had the use of another’s money may justly be required to pay interest from the time it lawfully should have been paid, [citing cases]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Swafford v. Sealtest Foods Division of National Dairy Products Corp.