Morehead v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““The circumstances of the execution of the deed — its being kept off the record, the want of any disclosed exercise of dominion over the property by plaintiff such as is usual in bona fide ownership, the want of any binding consideration for the conveyance — these and other incidental circumstances tended persuasively to convince the trial court that the conveyance was not genuine or indefeasible so far as concerned Mrs. Peintner’s judgment creditors. The court discerns no error in this case so far as the judgment rests on this conclusion of fact.” (p. 614.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stanley v. Martin