Joy v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Inasmuch as the mortgage was not paid to Walker & White, but to the Michigan Mortgage Company, as Vance himself testifies, it is not important whether he had notice or not. Had he paid to Walker & White in ignorance of the transfer, this question might have been important; but the case does not turn upon his right to pay to them, but upon his right to pay to the mortgage company. And, as Vance says that he did not know of the complainants’ ownership, there is no estoppel which would preclude their denial of the agency. He was not misled by them, but, if at all, by the acts of the Michigan Mortgage Company. The case is reduced, therefore, to the single question of the authority of the Michigan Mortgage Company to receive the money upon the mortgage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Church Ass'n v. Walton

2. “"He [the mortgagee] had a right to suppose that the mortgagor would not pay notes or mortgage without receiving them, and by keeping them in his own hands he interposed the only practical obstacle to the perpetration of a fraud by the mortgage company.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bloomer v. Dau