LeMond v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e do not know whether we are ruling on a one-sentence writing, whether we are speaking to a boilerplate general release form, whether we are concerned with a detailed, multi-page settlement contract, or whether the document is some other kind of official record which includes recitals about the merit, or lack of same, of the controversy. The parties, by merely stipulating that a "settlement agreement" is involved, have done no more than ask us for an advisory opinion unsupported by any documentary record whatever.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Department of Corrections v. Surovell

2. “not be reversed because the responsibility for presenting an adequate appellate record is upon the appellants who seek reversal of the decision below.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Department of Corrections v. Surovell

3. “Routinely, confidential records are filed for in camera inspection by a trial court and, if necessary, by an appellate court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. Com.