Chambers v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the defendant is indulged on the execution against him, upon condition that he promptly pays the debt by instalments, and fails to fulfil the condition, he can take nothing under the- agreement, because he has not fulfilled his part of it. He shall not profit by his laches. The parties are remitted to the position they at first occupied.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Armstrong v. Van Dyke