Price v. Lloyd’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““Courts of equity, in establishing the doctrine invoked by plaintiff, have not, by any means, intended to annul the statute of frauds, but only to prevent its being made the means of perpetrating a fraud. In order that a plaintiff may be permitted to give evidence of a contract not in writing, and which is in the very teeth of the statute and a nullity at law, it is essential that he establish [in equity], by clear and positive proof, acts and things done in pursuance and on account thereof, exclusively referable thereto, and which take it out of the operation of the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ravarino v. Price

2. “that her status or relation had been so far altered that not to enforce a performance ... inflict[ed] an unjust and unconscionable ... loss to her... . She [showed] no such strong equities ... as ... are required to be shown independent of the parol gift or verbal contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martin v. Scholl

3. “the necessary and most essential allegation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilberg v. Hyatt