Sinclair Refining Co. v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 22 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If it was an adjustment of all unliquidated contentions between them, it was a stated account, for if .those matters were not adjusted it was not a stated account and the plaintiff could not recover on such account. * * * “Plaintiff claims to have proven without conflict its replication to the effect that defendant acknowledged in writing the correctness of the account and that said acknowledgment is the basis of its claim that the account has been stated. In other words, that defendant’s contentions as to the quality of the fuel oil were included in the liquidation of the account. If that be the state of the evidence without conflicting inferences the claim of plaintiff would be well taken. The Court of Appeals held that the so called written acknowledgment was not of that sort, without conflicting inference; but that the jury could ‘infer all this statement was a bookkeeping matter to balance accounts and no acknowledgment of correctness otherwise.’ Upon that interpretation of the evidence, plaintiff was not due the affirmative charge, and we are not willing to overturn the construction of the evidence which was made by the Court of Appeals, nor the inferences drawn from it.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ingalls Iron Works Co. v. Ingalls · 456 So. 2d 822 - Wyatt v. Bradford Company, P.C.