Taylor v. Turley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t is urged, that however the parties may have made their contract, that there is such inadequacy between the consideration and the amount to be paid, occasioned by the subsequent events, that it would be unjust to hold the maker bound. Assuming the contract to be subsisting, is there any force in this objection? ... Whether he made a good or bad bargain, or received a full equivalent for what he promised to pay, cannot affect the legal character of his obligation. Parties contracting, must determine for themselves the value and benefit of the consideration, as of the other constituents of their contract. It is not the province of the Courts to interfere with the natural right of parties to contract, and to exercise their own will and judgment upon the subject; and they have the power to estimate the value of the consideration and the benefits to be derived from their contracts, where there is no incompetency to contract, no fraud or surprise, and no rule of law is violated. [Taylor v. Turley, 33 Md. 500, 504-05 (1871).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gladding v. Langrall, Muir & Noppinger

2. ““The contract must be construed by the natural and fair import of its terms, without reference to the hardship it may visit on the parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 236 Ill. App. 236 - American Travel & Hotel Directory Co. v. Curtis