Chace v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 25 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The provision in the contract under consideration relating to the liquidated damages does not specify what sum shall be so regarded in the event of a breach of its terms by the vendee but provides for an increasing penalty in inverse ratio to the purchaser’s performance of the contract’s terms. The less he performs the less he forfeits, but the nearer he comes to a complete fulfillment of the agreements, on his part to be performed without completing them the greater sum he forfeits to the vendor. “The clause we think merely secured to the vendor an option to rescind the agreement and take what damage he actually sustained or waive the privilege and bring action upon the unqualified agreement of the purchaser to pay.” (emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 142 So. 2d 761 - Riehl v. Bennett

2. ““that the clause of the contract quoted above provided the only remedy available to the seller in a ease of a failure on the purchaser’s part to meet any of the deferred payments or to comply with any of the other covenants upon his part to be performed; that by such clause the parties had provided for liquidated damages to be recovered by the seller, in the event the purchaser should fail to perform the covenants of payment under the contract; and that the seller had no other recourse.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chace, Sr. v. Smith