Lunt v. Wrenn’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the right to recover is upon the ground of failure of consideration, it is quite evident that the statute of limitations is a complete defense, since, in that event, it began to run fro.m the date of the transaction, for the condition of the scrip was then precisely what it is now, — counterfeit and worthless: and the evidence discloses no circumstance whereby, in any contingency, legitimate profit could be derived from its possession, either then or prospectively. And, if we shall concede that the liability to recover is upon the ground of an implied warranty of genuineness, we think it is equally clear that the statute of limitations, on the facts admitted in this record, is a complete de fense. The implied warranty, if it existed, was broken eo instanti it was made. Blethen v. Lovering, 58 Me. 437 . The scrip was then counterfeit, and a nullity. There was nothing of title or value that passed by the change of its possession, and no future contingency could possibly affect its legal character. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morton v. City of Nevada