Wright v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The law favors settlement of controversies. A settlement agreement is essentially contractual in nature. The typical settlement resolves uncertain claims and defenses, and the settlement obviates the necessity of further legal proceedings between the settling parties. We have long held that voluntary settlements of legal disputes should be encouraged, with the terms of settlements not inordinately scrutinized.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mark Peak v. Ellis Adams and Rachel Adams · Waechter v. Aluminum Co. of America

2. “Courts should ... support agreements which have for their object the amicable settlement of doubtful rights by parties .... [S]uch agreements are binding without regard to which party gets the best of the bargain or whether all the gain is in fact on one side and all the sacrifice on the other.”

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