Bahnsen v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The fraud against which a court of equity will relieve, to the extent of enforcing a parol contract, notwithstanding the statute of frauds, is not the mere moral fraud or wrong involved in the repudiation of a contract actually entered into, but which by reason of the statute he is not bound to perform for want of its being in writing, * * * but consists in the repudiation of a contract which has been made and upon which an innocent party has been misled to his injury, if the statute of frauds be strictly enforced against him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. Louis Trading Co. v. Barr

2. ““There are two propositions upon which the cases are very fully agreed; First, that the payment of the purchase money will not be regarded as part performance, and, second, that the acts of part performance must be such that it would be fraud upon him for the other party to refuse performance on his part.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Haer

3. ““The term ‘purchase money,’ as employed in the proposition above stated, comprehends the consideration, whether it be money, or property, or services, for which the lands are to be conveyed, and it • is not limited to money alone.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Haer