White v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 3 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. ““This case presents anew the old story of trouble arising from this character of contracts; and while courts of equity should be quick to respond to the appeals of the old, the infirm and the incompetent for protection against the wiles of designing men who seek by overreaching methods to profit and thrive at the expense of waning intellects and confiding old age, yet the investigation of such cases must be conducted with extreme caution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Martinez v. Martinez

2. ““When a strong, competent man makes a contract of this kind with a man concerning whose mental capacity there is any question (and he is not liable to make such a contract with any other kind of a man), it is not too much for a court of equity to place the burden upon him to clearly show that the transaction was not tainted with fraud.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hackett v. Whitley