In re Wyly’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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

1. ““It is true the bank has, since the insolvency of the bankrupts, practically agreed to first look to the bankruptcy court for the payment of the note, and to hold the grocery company only for that portion which is not paid out of the dividends arising from the bankruptcy estate. * * * The trustee, failing to show that the note was the property of the grocery company, seeks to enforce against the claim of the bank equities which would have existed by virtue of the provisions of the bankruptcy court act in favor of the estate of the bankrupts against the grocery company, the original payee of the note.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Levi

2. ““The wisdom of vouchsafing to the indorsee of negotiable paper the high degree of security now almost uniformly observed by the courts is made manifest by tracing the different rulings on the subject, and their effect upon credit and commerce. While it is right” to scrutinize carefully every circumstance in a transaction of this character for evidence of mala fides, a judge should not be led by considerations of expediency to leave the beaten tracks of law and precedent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Levi