Jarrett v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 23 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the plaintiff would repudiate a settlement, lie must put the other party in the same condition he was before it was made. lie cannot appropriate its beueiits and deny its obligations. There never was but one doctrine upon this subject; and the books are full of decisions that, if a party would rescind a contract for fraud or other causo, lie must, as far as in his power, put the other party in the condition ho would have been in had the contract not been made.””

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

2. ““Before commencing proceedings on his original claim, the plaintiff should have tendered back the note received of defendant — should have repudiated the settlement — and then he would have been at liberty to impeach it if set up against his claim. But, as it is, he hangs on to it, and is not at liberty to deny its validity. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wessel v. William Waltke & Co.