Pierson v. Pyles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The total purchase price of the aforesaid property is Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars, of which sum the above deposit of Sixty-five ($65.00) Dollars is to be a part; the purchasers covenant and agree to pay the balance of the purchase price, amounting to Fourteen Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-five ($14,935.00) Dollars at the rate of Sixty-five ($65.00) Dollars per month, including interest on the unpaid balance amounting to four per centum (4%) per annum, without the privilege of anticipating said monthly payments, which monthly payments are also to include all taxes and fire insurance which the sellers are hereby authorized and directed to pay from the aforesaid monthly payments of $65.00. “When the purchasers have paid the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars on account of the principal sum due hereunder, then, and in that event, the sellers agree to execute a deed covering the aforesaid property and to take back a purchase money mortgage for the unpaid balance, amounting to Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-five ($9,935.00) Dollars, at the cost of the purchasers, said mortgage to be payable on the same terms and conditions provided for above.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pyles v. Callis