Li Rocchi v. Keen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"An act is said to import a confession of judgment in matters of privilege and mortgage, when it is passed before a notary public, or other officer fulfilling the same functions, in the presence of two witnesses, and the obligor declares and acknowledges therein the obligation (whether then existing or thereafter to arise) to which the privilege or mortgage relates."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Li Rocchi v. Keen

2. “The notarial act in the present case contains authentic evidence of the signatures of the makers but it does not contain authentic evidence of the endorsements of the note by the makers. Since the note is made payable to the order of the makers without authentic evidence of said endorsement, executory process was not available to the holders of said note.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Li Rocchi v. Keen

3. “An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Li Rocchi v. Keen