Hearon v. Davis’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. “"Whether or not a donor reserves to himself sufficient property to provide him with subsistence is a question of fact, which, of course, the public records do not disclose. However, a purchaser from the donee assumes the risk of losing the property to the donor if the facts warrant application of the rule laid down in Article 1497 of the Civil Code."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 325 So. 2d 283 - Owen v. Owen · 109 So. 2d 300 - Dugas v. Talley

2. ““ * * * Anyone examining the public records and reading the instrument with a view of purchasing the property or any part of it would unquestionably have decided that its real and true consideration was not the $25 but the onerous condition incorporated therein; and this being true, the character of the act as a donation should have been apparent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 109 So. 2d 300 - Dugas v. Talley

3. ““The contract of sale is an agreement by which one gives a thing for a price in current money, and the other gives the price in order to have the thing itself. Three circumstances concur to the perfection of the contract, to wit: the thing sold, the price and the consent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keahey v. Osborne Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, Inc.