Tracy v. Morell’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. “control only as to the issues they cover and a general judgment will control as to the issues upon which there are no findings.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stevenson v. County Commissioners · Ks v. Bw

2. “[where both parties share a common assumption about a vital fact upon which they based their bargain, and that assumption is false, the transaction may be avoided if because of the mistake a quite different exchange of values occurs from the exchange of values contemplated by the parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kesling v. Kesling

3. “In order to determine that a finding or conclusion is clearly erroneous, an appellate court's review of the evidence must leave it with the firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kesling v. Kesling