Lefkovitz v. Lester’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. ““If the cotton was converted by a sale of it in which each of the defendants participated, one as the seller and the other as the purchaser of it, both having notice of the plaintiff’s rights, a joint action was maintainable against them for the wrongful act. Pippin v. Farmers Warehouse Co., 167 Ala. 162 , 51 South. 882 ; Powell et al. v. Thompson, 80 Ala. 51 . A different rule is not stated in the opinion in the case of Larkins & Moore v. Eckwurzel, 42 Ala. 322 , 94 Am. Dec. 651 , upon which counsel for the appellants rely. That was a case of a joint action in trover brought against the seller and the buyer of a chattel, where the latter was a bona fide purchaser, without knowledge or notice of the plaintiff’s rights. In the ease at bar the record of the mortgage charged the buyer with notice of the plaintiff’s rights under the mortgage, and he was in no position to claim protection as a bona fide purchaser without notice. Chadwick v. Russell, 117 Ala. 290 , 23 South. 524 ; Code §3386.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Union State Bank of Wapato v. Warner