Armstrong v. Toler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 federal appellate · 3 district · 149 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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where the contract grows immediately out of, and is connected, with, an illegal or immoral act, a court of justice will not lend its aid to enforce it. And if the contract be in part only connected with the illegal transaction, and growing immediately out of it, though it be, in fact, a new contract, it is equally tainted by it.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Roberts v. Criss · Manning v. Metal Stamping Corporation

2. ““The general proposition slated by Lord Mansfield, in Kaikney v. Keynous, that if one person paid tlie debt of another, at liis request, an action limy be sustained to recover the money, although the original contract was unlawful, goes far in deciding the question now before the court. That the .person who paid the money knew it was paid in discharge of a. debt not recoverable at lawr has never been held to alter the case.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jenson v. Toltec Ranch Co. · Franklin v. Mortgage Guaranty & Security Co.

3. “Had the jury desired further information, they might, and probably would, have signified their desire to the Court. The utmost willingness was manifested to gratify them, and it may fairly be presumed that they had nothing farther to ask.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weeks v. Angelone · Belmontes v. Woodford