Magri v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “Legal agreements having the effects of law upon the parties, none but the parties can abrogate or modify them. Upon this principle are established the following rules: First —That no general or special legislative act can be so construed as to avoid or modify a legal contract previously made; Second —That courts are bound to give legal effect to all such contracts according to the true intent of all the parties; Third —That the intent is to be determined by the words of the contract, when these are clear and explicit and lead to no absurd consequences; Fourth —That it is the common intent of the parties—that is, the intention of all—that is to be sought for; if there was a difference in this intent, there was no common consent and, consequently, no contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. ST. JOHN BAPTIST PARISH ASS'N OF EDUCATORS v. St. John Baptist Parish School Bd.