Barber v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““If the abstract as offered failed to show on its face a merchantable title as agreed upon, the purchaser was not bound to accept a conveyance, even though he may have had previous knowledge of the defects in title, which were, however, of such nature as required some action to be taken by the seller to remedy them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKnight v. Broedell