Terpin v. Daugherty’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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. “It would seem clear that plaintiff cannot have both the land and the purchase price. He cannot have the contract terminated or canceled to enable him to get back the land, and at the same time have it kept alive to enable him to get the purchase price, or any part of it.... .... ... If the vendor is placed in the same legal position as if the contract had not been made, then he has no right of action for anything arising out of the contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chamberlain Livestock Auction, Inc. v. Penner