Charles v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

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40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is clear that the findings of fact of a chancellor, approved by a court en banc, ‘are controlling unless the record reveals that such findings of fact are without evidentiary support of record or such findings are premised on erroneous inferences and deductions or an error of law.’ Dozor Agency, Inc. v. Rosenberg, 431 Pa. 321, 323 , 246 A.2d 330, 331 (1968). See also Cohen v. Sabin, 452 Pa. 447, 451 , 307 A.2d 845 (1973). This rule is particularly applicable to ‘findings of fact which are predicated upon the credibility of witnesses, whom the chancellor has had the opportunity to hear and observe, and upon the weight to be given to their testimony.’ Scientific Living, Inc. v. Hohensee, 440 Pa. 280, 286 , 270 A.2d 216, 220 (1970).””

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

2. “The plaintiff is entitled to be informed, before proceeding to the expense and burden of the prosecution of a fruitless trial, whether defendant intends, upon plaintiffs proof of an oral contract, to claim the protection of the Statute of Frauds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 391 Pa. Super. 404 - Sage Holding Corp. v. Sage Folding Box Co.