Tkachik v. Mandeville’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 8 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[e]quity jurisprudence molds its decrees to do justice amid all the vicissitudes and intricacies of life' and that '[e]quity allows complete justice to be done in a case by adapting its judgments to the special circumstances of the case.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ali Bazzi v. Sentinel Insurance Company · 321 Mich. App. 304 - Brody v. Deutchman (In Re Rhea Brody Living Trust)

2. “The general rule of contribution is that one who is compelled to pay or satisfy the whole or to bear more than his aliquot share of the common burden or obligation , upon which several persons are equally liable or which they are bound to discharge, is entitled to contribution against the others to obtain from them payment of their respective shares.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mass. Bay Ins. Co. v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.

3. “The granting of equitable relief is ordinarily a matter of grace, and whether a court of equity will exercise its jurisdiction, and the propriety of affording equitable relief, rests in the sound discretion of the court, to be exercised according to the circumstances and exigencies of each particular case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 321 Mich. App. 304 - Brody v. Deutchman (In Re Rhea Brody Living Trust)