Moore v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The purchasers, Moore and Luckett, had no control over the money after it was paid to the sheriff and were in no way responsible for his misappropriation of the $1 by applying it to the payment of an excessive charge for making the deed. If there was an excess in the bid over the amount which the sheriff could lawfully collect, it was the proceeds of the sale of Rogers’ land and belonged to him in the hands of the sheriff. He had the right to make the sheriff account to him for the dollar improperly applied to the payment of the unlawful fee. Moore and Luckett had no claim upon the money after it was paid to the sheriff, and were in no way responsible for his application of it to the satisfaction of the writ in his hands.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bonougli v. Brown

2. ““This did not have the effect to make the sale void, but voidable only ; there being no evidence of any participation of the purchasers, the plaintiffs in error, in the error committed, nor any fraudulent act on their part in connection with the sale and purchase, the honorable Court of Civil Appeals correctly held that it devolved upon Rogers to restore the purchasers to their former position; that is, to return to them the full amount of their bid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bonougli v. Brown