Bailey v. Joy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The plaintiffs contend that the mortgages were ‘placed,’ within the meaning of the orders, when they were recorded, or at least when they were transferred, and that the defendant then became liable to a full amount of the mortgages. But it seems clear to us that this is not what the parties intended. If the orders had been to pay the plaintiffs’ bills when the mortgages ‘are placed;’ with nothing more, it might have presented a more difficult question; but the added words ‘and from the amounts realized from said mortgages above the amount due George E. Joy for land and advances’ point very strongly to the conclusion that by ‘placed’ the parties meant ‘sold’ or ‘realized.’ Construing the words ‘are placed,’ in connection with the context, and also with the contract between doy and Tenney, to which the orders refer, it is clear that such was the moaning and intention of the parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanger v. First Nat. Bank of Amarillo