Ives v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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. ““Courts should use great caution and require a high degree of proof in cases of reformation of written instruments. Johnson v. Sandlin, 209 Ala. 430 , 96 So. 223 . ‘The proof must be clear, exact, and satisfactory that the writing does not express the intention, of the parties, and also as to what the parties did intend the writing should contain.’ Lipham v. Shamblee, 205 Ala. 498 , 88 So. 569 . See, also, 17 Alabama Digest, Release, p. 45. This rule is especially salutary in cases like this one where death has sealed the lips of the party against whom relief is sought.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lincoln v. Wells

2. ““ 'The rule is well settled that where an unimpeached witness testifies 'distinctly and positively to a fact and is uncontradicted, but the statements of the witness are grossly improbable or he has an interest in the question at issue, Courts are not bound' to blindly adopt the statements of such witness.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fleck v. State

3. ““The weight and credibility of the testimony of an interested party, though . uncontradicted, is for the triers of the facts, whether court or jury, who are not bound thereby.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fleck v. State