Martin v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * The option contract itself did not vest in the plaintiff any interest in the lands, nor obligate him to purchase them. It. merely gave him the privilege of acquiring an interest therein by performing. the stipulated conditions as to the payment of one-fifth of the purchase price, or tendering performance thereof, within the life of the option. Therefore the finding of fact that he did neither the one nor the other supports the conclusion of law that plaintiff had no cause of action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vogt v. Ganlisle Holding Co.