Bata v. Bata’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The so-called agreement of sale dated May 10, 1931, and the will of Thomas Bata dated May 19, 1931, appear to have been designed chiefly, as Mr. Justice Schreiber has said, for tax purposes". 279 App.Div. 182 , 108 N.Y. S.2d 659, 660.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bata v. Bata · Bata v. Hill

2. “* * * We hold that the trial court correctly penetrated the fiction which was erected, whether for tax purposes or otherwise, and determined rightly that title to these 826 shares of Leader A. G. passed to plaintiffs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bata v. Hill

3. “in the expectation that Jan would treat it as a mere simulacrum and do what was right”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bata v. Bata