Lebow v. Weiner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A deed or other instrument may be said to be signed whenever the name of its maker is so written upon it as to evidence his intention to give authenticity to it. At common law the seal was the sign, and a sealing was regarded as a signing, — as the act evidencing the intention of the maker to give vitality to the instrument; so, under the laws of those states in which sealing has been dispensed with and subscription is not required, it has been very generally held that the writing of the name of the maker in the body of the instrument, in such connection as to evidence his intention to give effect, vitality, or authenticity to the entire writing as one completed instrument, is to be deemed a signing, within the meaning of the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spawglass Construction Corp. v. City of Houston

2. “"Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that JOSEPH LEBOW placed his signature on Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 2 with the intent that both pages of it be a contract signed by him?"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lebow v. Weiner