Auffm'ordt v. Rasin’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is to be observed that the full period of four months from the receipt of the securities had passed, indeed, more than six months had passed, before the enactment of this amendment, and the bankruptcy proceeding had been initiated within that period and the assignee appointed. The rights of the parties were therefore fixed before the new law was passed. The assignee had a vested right to the securities, or to their value. The defendants were under legal obligation to return these securities or to pay their value to the assignee. To hold that Congress intended by this amendatory statute to take away that right of action, is to hold that it intended by a retrospective statute to destroy a vested right of property or an existing right of action. If it be conceded that Congress could do this, the principle is too well established to need the citation of authorities, that no law will be construed to act retrospectively unless its language imperatively requires such a construction . . . ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henderson v. Beneficial Finance Co. (In re Henderson) · Malpeli v. Beneficial Finance Co. of Illinois (In Re Malpeli)