Owens v. Purdy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 the plain, persistent, unyielding intent of the Legislature to make the foregoing code provisions mandatory. When a plaintiff has complied with such provisions, and stated facts which show that he has sustained a detriment without fault on his part, and shows that such detriment has been caused by the wrongful conduct of another, states facts which show with reasonable clearness that in law or equity the party guilty of such wrongful conduct is liable to plaintiff for the results thereof, it then becomes tbe duty of the courts, under the purpose for which they are created, to determine from the allegations and proof what relief the plaintiff may be entitled to, and in order to enable them to fulfill such purpose, the district courts- are endowed with the dual power of a chancellor and a court at law, so that, under the facts stated and proven, if the law be adequate, then the court will award such relief as the law authorizes, but if the law be inadequate to proper relief, then the court, in its powers as a chancellor, will award such relief as in equity and good conscience the allegations and proof show the plaintiff entitled to receive. St. L. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Yount, 30 Okla. 371 , 120 Pac. 627 ; Smith v. Gardner, 37 Okla. 183 , 131 Pac. 538 ; West v. Madansky, 80 Okla. 161 , 194 Pac. 439 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Security Nat. Bank of Tulsa v. Geck