Sutton v. Hayden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 57 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There are things which money cannot buy; a thousand nameless and delicate services and attentions, incapable of being the subject of explicit contract, which money, with all its peculiar potency, is powerless to purchase. The law furnishes no standard whereby the value of such services can be estimated, and equity can only make an approximation in that direction by decreeing the specific execution of the contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Maness v. Graham

2. “Nor is it regarded as any substantial obstacle to the relief sought that the mode whereby the property was to be transferred was not specified. The intention to transfer the property was the chief thing, the method by which the intended result was to be attained, was wholly immaterial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Adams v. Moberg

3. “would come and live with her (Mrs. Green) . . . and nurse and take care of her for the remainder of her (Mrs. Green's) life, . . . all that she had should be hers (Mrs. Sutton's) at her (Mrs. Green's) death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Adams v. Moberg