Holcomb v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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

1. ““I had as good a judge of pine as there is in Michigan examine this land, and a good judge of pine, and he estimates that there is about five million pine on the land, one-half of which is white pine, and the rest Norway; and he says that this is a very low estimate, and that the pine is of good quality. The white pine is scattering among hard wood, which usually indicates first-class pine. The land is worth, for farming purposes, $5 per acre after pine is off, and this is price of farming land in this locality. The land is close to logging stream, which carries logs to Alpena. There are quite a number of good farms in same township. I hold lands at $12.50 per acre, and think there is enough pine on land to pay for it at that price."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chase v. Boughton

2. ““It is admitted that in equity an actual design to mislead is not necessary if a party is actually misled by another in a bargain. There was abundant evidence in this' case to authorize the jury to find that defendant, whether honestly or dishonestly, expected plaintiff to act on his representations of the reliableness of the reports which he produced, and that plaintiff did rely on them. There is no reason for a difference in action in such cases between courts of law and courts of equity."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chase v. Boughton

3. “as though it had proceeded from a vicious purpose....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schwartz v. Electronic Data Sytems, Inc.