Clifton v. Meuser’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The verdict in that case may possibly have been against her because the jury believed she had performed no services, but the record does not affirmatively show that to have been the ground. . . . The issues in the two actions were not identical. In the first the question was whether an express agreement for the passing of the title to the money had been made and performed. In the second the question was whether services had been rendered under such circumstances that the law implied a contract to pay their reasonable value.” ■. (pp. 409, 410.)”

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

2. “"A judgment which may have resulted from a determination of either one of two or more separate issues does not constitute an adjudication as to either, where it is not shown upon which it was in fact based.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ingalls Land & Loan Co. v. Cohen