Watts v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The question has been discussed whether a corporation may adopt a general method of paying its employees by check, not directly to such employees, but to other persons designáted by them as recipients of these checks, thereby canceling with one instrument two debts. Arising out of this question is a further one, whether everyone taking such checks must be held prima facie in the wrong. It is in proof in the present case that this method of paying was not only customary with the particular corporation, but with many others, and with business men generally, when requested by employees, in the manner stated; the checks, of course, being charged to the account of the employee. We are unable to see anything legally wrong in such a custom.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sweet v. Lang

2. ““The theory of resulting trust, however, cannot apply where there was no real misappropriation, and the party whose money was used really agreed to that use. This brings us back to the view, previously announced in this opinion, that, where all of the real stockholders and a majority of the directors agree to a particular appropriation of the funds of the corporation, and that appropriation leaves the corporation still solvent, no one can complain.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sweet v. Lang