Howard v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is only when property is received in satisfaction without any price being agreed upon at which it is to be estimated between them that it becomes a valid accord and satisfaction. Such a delivery and acceptance is held to be binding on the creditor, because the parties have the right to determine for themselves the value of property transferred from the one to the other; and, when once it is determined, they are, in the absence of fraud, bound by such agreement. There is no reason why, if parties so agree, a horse intrinsically worth but §50 may not be received in satisfaction of a debt of §1,000. No tribunal is authorized to repudiate the arrangement and fix a price on the animal for them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Freeman