Gordon v. Gordon’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. “if the plaintiff has paid money to the defendant, or to the administrator for her, and which she has received upon the faith of her parol agreement to release her dower, there would seem to be no good reason why he should not be allowed to recover back from her whatever she has received upon a contract which she now refuses to fulfil.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gordon v. Gordon