Allen v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A debt is liquidated if its amount was readily ascertainable at the time it arose.”). In the trial court's order dated February 4, 2008, the trial court introduced Housecraft's prayer for relief of $36,757.76, plus the additional contracted pre-judgment interest rate of 1.5 percent, which was to start accruing on July 1, 2005. The order concluded by awarding Housecraft a compromised amount of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mazza v. HOUSECRAFT LLC

2. “shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nec v. Nmcg

3. “Where the parties have entered into a contract, being made whole means realizing the benefit of the bargain that they struck.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruth Saunders v. Stephen T. Hudgens