Phillips v. Latham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Defendant Phillips will be permitted to amend his pleadings to allege the amount due him. Plaintiffs will be permitted in reply to plead an offer to pay what they owe. If plaintiffs fail to plead such an offer, the court is instructed to render judgment that plaintiffs take nothing. If plaintiffs do plead such an offer, the court will, without reopening any of the points settled in this opinion, or the facts upon which they are based, render judgment in favor of plaintiffs for title and possession of the property, conditioned upon and subject to payment of the amount of the indebtedness, as determined by the court, or the court will make such other order as will secure payment to Phillips of such amount”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. Latham

2. ““The only remaining item of actual damages submitted by the trial court is ‘loss of earnings in the past.’ As we read the record, the only time lost from work by either of the plaintiffs, except that resulting from illnesses now shown to have been caused by defendants’ acts, was time lost because of the pendency of the lawsuit, such as that required for depositions and attendance at the two trials in this case. This loss is an expense of litigation. We know of no authority supporting recovery of actual damages for such a loss, and plaintiffs have cited none.” 523 S.W.2d at 27 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCormick Piano & Organ Co., Inc. v. Geiger