Lessly v. Bowie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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

1. ““The law requires that all contracts concerning the transfer of land shall be in writing. A purchaser must protect himself by covenants. It follows that, where there is no express warranty, none can be implied. Omission to warrant disproves intention to warrant, and, if that could be contradicted by implication, it would be not only creating a contract against the intention, but proving it by parol. As to land, there can be no such thing as failure of consideration growing out of a breach of contract, or, as it is sometimes expressed, the equitable condition of sale; otherwise, there would he, so far as that defense is concerned, no difference between a quitclaim and a warranty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Halsey v. Minnesota-South Carolina Land & Timber Co.