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← 39 AD2D 485 - Lacks v. Lacks

Lacks v. Lacks’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
June 1980
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Garlock v. Garlock · Mertens v. Wakefield

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

  1. “(T)hat defendant (sic, plaintiff) be required specifically to perform said agreement, that if specific performance is not granted defendant be granted judgment against plaintiff in damages . . . and for such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a claim of sovereign or diplomatic immunity”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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