Sloane v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On this motion of course we do not look into the merits of the appeal. We are only called upon to determine whether the defendant has waived or lost his right to appeal from the order, because by the arrangement disclosed in the affidavits the judgment has been paid. ... We cannot find any satisfactory evidence in the affidavits that the defendant agreed to stop litigation or not take an appeal from the order. This might well have been the understanding of plaintiffs’ attorneys of the effect of the arrangement; but there is no satisfactory proof that the defendant or his attorney so understood it, or intended to waive any right of appeal. If we were satisfied that the parties by that arrangement mutually intended and agreed to settle all litigation in the matter and waive all right of appeal, a different question would be presented. Such an agreement, if fairly made, would probably be enforced. [Citations.] But such an agreement ought to be clearly established, and not made out by way of inference.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riley v. Estate of Sather