John Catts v. James Phalen’s Empirical Analysis

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25 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The consequence is that he has not and cannot have any better standing in court than if he had never owned a ticket in the lottery, or it had never been drawn. So far as he is concerned,' the law annuls the pretended drawing of the prize he claimed, and in point of law he did not draw the lottery. His fraud avoids not only his acts, but places him in the same position as if there had been no drawing in fact, and he had claimed and received the money of the plaintiffs by means of any- other false pretense, and he is estopped from avowing that the lottery was in fact drawn. * * * The contract which the law raises between them is not founded on the drawing of the lottery, but on the obligation to refund the money which has been received by falsehood and fraud, by the assertion of a drawing which never took place.””

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

2. “[A] party cannot assign for error, the refusal of an instruction to which he has not a right to the full extent as stated, and in its precise terms ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thoma v. Kettler Bros., Inc.