Wheeler v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Most of the facts sought to be introduced by his testimony related to what was done in the absence of the deceased, including the forwarding or removal of property destined for his use, he being in Texas, and the transactions being confined to occurrences in, Michigan, and on the way between the two states. Some testimony referred to the value of property and transportation. These matters could not, for the most part, be known to deceased at all, and his only information must have been hearsay. It is not, therefore, necessary to go into any examination of the statute, which can not possibly apply to such facts/'’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ripley v. Seligman

2. ““ There was no occasion for an accounting in equity, unless there had been such dealing with assets as well as such private relations with the firm as to make a settlement otherwise difficult ; and there being only two partners concerned, (and discovery being now obtainable as well at law as in equity,) there would seem to be no very good reason why the remedy at law would not be entirely adequate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clarke v. Mills