Weight v. Geer’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There are cases where the duty arises from the nature of the employment, and no contract is necessary to be stated or proved; thus in the case of a common carrier the law imposes the liability, and it is only necessary to state the employment of a carrier as such. No express contract is necessary. The rule may be illustrated by the following case: Suppose a carrier receives compensation for carrying goods and agrees to call at a given place and receive them, and neglects to do so. Here is no liability imposed by law, and he can be made liable only upon the express contract But, if he received the goods and failed to deliver them, the ground of liability is different, and no express contract need be stated. The same rule would doubtless hold in a case of a surgeon.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gawne v. Bicknell