Hendrick v. Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

54 federal appellate · 14 district · 44 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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Damage to the promisee constitutes as good a consideration as benefit to the promisor. In Pillan v. Van Mierop, 3 Burr. 1663, the court say: ‘Any damage or suspension of a right, or possibility of a loss, occasioned to the plaintiff by the promise of another, is a sufficient consideration for such promise, and will make it binding, although no actual benefit accrued to the party promising.’ This rule is sustained by a. long list of adjudged cases.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. A. Booth & Co. v. Davis · Grimes v. Barndollar

2. ““But tlie right of a party to maintain assumpsit on a promise not under seal made to another for his benefit, although, much controverted, is now the prevailing rule in this country.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Austin v. Seligman · Fish v. First Nat. Bank of Seattle