Chase v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““No sum of money whatever was tendered, and no tender in the proper sense made at all. There was no more than a proposition or offer to pay what might be ascertained' as the proper sum; but the parties tendering had not informed themselves, and took no steps to do so beyond preparing a receipt in blank, to be filled up when the supposed judgment and interest should be figured up. This receipt purported to discharge the judgment. Prentis refused to sign it. There is some conflict as to what reason he gave, but, inasmuch as no sum of money whatever was produced or offered, all that it could have amounted to at best was a manifestation of readiness to make payment when the proper amount was figured up. This was no tender of payment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Niederhauser v. Detroit Citizens' Street-Railway Co.