Campbell Printing-Press Co. v. Thorp’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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

1. ““The true doctrine is expressed in McCarren v. McNulty, 7 Gray [Mass.] 139, 141: ‘It may be that the plaintiff was injudicious or indiscreet in undertaking to labor and furnish materials for a compensation, the payment of which was made dependent upon a contingency so hazardous or doubtful as the approval or satisfaction of a party particularly in interest. But of that he was the sole judge. Against the consequences resulting from his own bargain the law can afford him no relief; having voluntarily assumed the obligations and risk of tlie contract, Ms legal rights are to be ascertained and determined solely‘according to its provisions.’ “Other cases extend the same doctrine to contracts for the pertormance of labor, or for the support of another to Ms satisfaction. In such case, the employer may be wholly dissatisfied with the character of the service rendered, or the beneficiary made exceedingly uncomfortable by his surroundings, without in' either case being able to assign what the law would recognize as a sufficient reason for his dissatisfaction. It makes him, however, the sole judge of the reasonableness of his own discontent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Music Stores v. Kussel

2. “We know of no reason of public policy which prevents parties from contracting that the decision of one or the other shall be conclusive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fullington v. Ozark Poultry Supply Co.