Hudson v. McCartney’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 36 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . If fraud in the arbiter can ever be established by proof that he refused to certify the execution of the work when the same had been duly and properly performed, it can only be in those cases where the refusal is shown to have been grossly and palpably perverse, oppressive and unjust, so much so that the inference of bad faith and dishonesty would at once arise when the facts are known. . . .” Hudson v. McCartney, supra, at page 342.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 45 Wis. 2d 218 - Ekstrom v. State

2. ““. . . [I]t is not upon every claim made by the mechanic or workman that he has complied with his contract, or upon every controversy arising between him and the arbiter, that the power of deciding is to be taken away from the latter, and the question carried into a court of law, there to be determined by a jury of twelve inexperienced men, or by the judge of the court alone. . . .” Hudson v. McCartney, supra, at page 342.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 45 Wis. 2d 218 - Ekstrom v. State