Clark v. Aldrich’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Willful nonperformance, the basic idea in defendant’s eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth assignments of error, has no bearing on the issue in this case. Of course the plaintiff’s rights to the lumber and wood originated in the contract. But after it was cut it was his. This suit sounds in tort for its conversion. Plaintiff does not declare on a contract which he may or may not have willfully broken. Defendant’s rights were all fully secured by the court’s instruction that the jury should assess any damages defendant had suffered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sorensen v. Jacobson