Hanauer v. Woodruff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The contract sued on is not the same but a different contract, yet it is connected with that contract by the Tact that the bonds constitute its consideration. * * * It thus draws to itself the illegality of the original transaction. * * * When a contract is thus connected, by its consideration, with an illegal transaction, a court of justice will not aid its enforcement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Branch v. Haas

2. “They have no necessary relations to the hostile government, whether invading or insurgent. They are transactions in the ordinary course of civil society, and, though they may indirectly1 and remotely promote the ends of the unlawful government, are without blame, except when proved to have been entered into with actual intent to further invasion or insurrection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dugger v. Bocock

3. “that they were only a circulating medium in the sense that any negotiable money instruments, in the payment of which the community has confidence, constitute a circulating medium.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dugger v. Bocock