Bowman v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Interest is allowed upon the ground that the debtor is in default and has the use of claimant’s money. It is never allowed where, by the order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by the interposition of the law, or the act of the creditor, payment of a debt has been prevented. During the continuance of such prevention the interest does not run. If a fund is in the custody of the law,—in the possession of a court,—and cannot be paid out without the order of such court, it does not ordinarily bear interest I know of no principle of law or equity upon which the interest claimed can be allowed at the expense of the general unsecured creditors, who are certainly in no wise responsible for the delay in making the final order of distribution,”—citing 1 Am. Lead. Cas. (3d Ed.) 516 et seq.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Solomons v. American Building & Loan Ass'n · Bank of China v. Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co.