Benavente v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The words of the rule, along with its context, are the best evidence of its meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 289 Or. App. 610 - Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Jasper

2. “leaves nothing for the court to do but to enter what the parties have agreed upon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 Or. App. 256 - Rodgers v. Canby Post No. 122