Ray v. Electrical Products Consolidated’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'(1) An agreement, made in advance of breach, fixing the damages therefor, is not enforceable as a contract and does not affect the damages recoverable for the breach, unless”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jessen v. Jessen · Walker v. Graham

2. “"We think there can be no quarrel with the rule that a provision in a contract will be construed as a penalty or forfeiture and hence unenforceable if it bears no reasonable relationship to the amount of actual damages. In re Grodnik's, Inc., D.C.Minn., 128 F. Supp. 941, 943 [(1955)]; Fox Chicago Realty Corporation v. Zukor's Dresses, Inc., 50 Cal. App.2d 129 , 122 P.2d 705, 708 [(1942)]; Electrical Products Corporation v. Ziegler Drug Stores, Inc., 141 Or. 117 , 10 P.2d 910 , 15 P.2d 1078, 1081 . This is simply another way of stating the rule which we previously quoted from A.L.I. Restatement, Contracts." Ray v. Electrical Products Consolidated, supra, 390 P.2d at 609 . ATTORNEY'S FEES”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walker v. Graham · Marcam Mortgage Corp. v. Black