Williams v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 18 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is too plain for argument that, under the evidence, if the plaintiff can recover at all, it must be under the third count, which claims the price agreed tó be paid for the sale of 50 shares of stock in tbe Decatur Land Company. The bill of exceptions sets out all the evidence, and this evidence, in our opinion, shows a contract in violation of section 6, art. 14, of the Constitution (1875), which provides that ‘no corporation shall issue stock, or bonds, except for money,, labor, done, or money or property actually received; and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lockney State Bank v. Martin

2. “. . . A contract which contemplates the violation of a statute, or a Constitution, as a mode of executing such contract, is illegal and void. It is based on an unlawful consideration, and, if executory, can not be enforced.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matthews v. Matthews