Schleef v. Purdy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We think that this decision is decisive of the objection urged here, even if this suit is a local one. It was within the legislative power to prescribe that suits affecting title to real property should be brought in the county where the land was situated and to provide that where a suit affecting land was not brought in the county where the land lies, but was brought in any other county in the state, the court, having jurisdiction of the parties to the suit, should have jurisdiction to hear and determine any matter affecting the title to lands in another county, unless objection to the power of the court was made before answer, and to direct that unless such objection was so made, the court to which the action was brought, should have power to determine the matters affecting the lands so involved.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mutzig v. Hope

2. ““Until foreclosure and sale the mortgage is a mere chose in action secured by a lien upon the land, which gives to the mortgagor [mortgagee] no title or estate whatever to the mortgaged premises. The mortgagor [mortgagee] has no interest in the mortgaged premises which he can sell or which can be sold separately from the debt itself, and the transfer of the mortgage, without a transfer of the debt intended to be secured thereby, is a mere nullity. ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Favour