Becker v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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

1. “whether a trust is created by a contract is to be ascertained by the words used in that contract or by the terms of that contract, however phrased, which show in the light of the surrounding circumstances that the parties intended by the executed instrument to create an express trust in furtherance of the object sought to be attained.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hickey v. Thomas G. Gallagher, Inc. (In Re H & a Construction Co.) · Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. Porter-Englehart