St Paul Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 3 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or Share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless- (hey are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer haring authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall he certified by the officer: and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at file time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the transfer, assignment, or warrant of attorney to the person acknowledging the same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. National Bank of Commerce of Seattle v. Downie