Byrd v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““The real character of a promise does not depend altogether upon the form of expression, but largely upon the situation of the parties, and the question always is what the parties mutually understood by the language, whether they understood it to be a collateral or a direct promise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kimbrel v. Long