Davis v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 10 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Tbe referee, however, in his report, which was confirmed by the court in bankruptcy, holds as a matter of law that, because the bond is signed by the members of the firm individually under their separate signatures and seals, it is an individual debt, and cannot be proven, as against the partnership of Jones, Raper & Co., until all the partnership debts have been paid in full. In this conclusion we think there is error, and that, although the paper bears the Signatures and seals of the individuals composing the firm, yet, from the 'uneontrádicted, evidence, it appears affirmatively and fully that the debt was contracted by the firm, for its benefit, and that the whole proceeds of the note were used in the due course of the partnership business.- The undisputed evidence in the case establishes the fact beyond controversy that the bond to Hinton was for a firm debt, and we so hold, and that, as such debt, it is provable against the estate of the partnership in bankruptcy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mock v. Stoddard