Goodrich v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order that such an accord should be a defense to the original debt, it is necessary, in the language of Parke B., in the case last cited (namely, Evans v. Powis, 1 Wels. Hurls. & Gor. 601), that the plaintiff should have ‘agreed to accept the agreement itself, and not the performance of it, as a satisfaction for his debt, so that if it was not performed his only remedy would be by an action for the breach of it, and not a right to recur to the original debt. ’ There must be a valid agreement substituting a new cause of action in place of the old. It is not sufficient that there is a mere accord between the same parties, with mutual promises, but there must be a new agreement with a new consideration. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rogers v. City of Spokane

2. ““Where it is claimed that it is so extinguished, it ought most explicitly to appear that such was the intention of the parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frankfurt-Barnett Co. v. William Prym Co.