Pickler v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court stated: “The evidence shows that defendant was an attorney at law ... we feel certain that if it was the intention of the parties to discharge defendant’s note, some mention of this fact would have been written into the act of partition ... We believe that the written instrument of the transaction is the best evidence of the intention of the parties as to what was undertaken by the act of partition. Had the petitioner meant to discharge defendant of his personal note, such fact should have been inserted into the written instrument. Considering the fact that the defendant is an attorney at law, and that he drew up the instrument himself, we feel certain that he must have been very careful to protect his interests in the transaction. Certainly he must have mentioned every fact which would work to his advantage. It is therefore, our conclusion that the act of partition did not discharge the personal note of defendant, and that such was not the intention of the parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 433 So. 2d 228 - Whipple v. Whipple

2. ““He who claims the execution of an obligation must prove it. On the other hand, he who contends that he is exonerated, must prove the payment or the fact which has produced the extinction of the obligation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 433 So. 2d 228 - Whipple v. Whipple