Waechter v. Wilde’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`When one person has got the estate of another, he ought not, in conscience, to be allowed to keep it without paying the consideration. It is on this principle that Courts of Equity proceed as between vendor and vendee. * * *'" (Emphasis added.) 38 P.2d at 323-324 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tri-State National Bank v. Saffren

2. “"There is no provision in the statutes of this state, to which our attention has been called, which in terms interferes with the operation of so beneficient a principle between the vendor and the vendee themselves. * * *" (Emphasis added.) Id. 38 P.2d at 324 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tri-State National Bank v. Saffren

3. “"* * * a specific, or absolute charge upon the property, but rather a simple right to resort to the same upon failure of payment by the vendee. * * *" Waechter v. Wilde, supra, 38 P.2d at 322 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tri-State National Bank v. Saffren