Bridier v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Counsel for movant insist that the order of November 4, 1941, should be modified, because, as it now stands, confusion and uncertainty exist and it creates a hardship on all the parties; that the Hansards, if a resale is had immediately, will become, because of the circumstances, preferred bidders, and possess an advantage over all others in that they went into the possession of the property and collected large sums of money in the form of rents and profits; claim and assert large sums of money are due them for betterments to the property made in good faith, and that an adjudication thereof by a court has not been had or the amount made known to other bidders; that all bidders at the resale should stand on the same level and a decree of the court determining the respective conflicting items should be entered, after all the evidence is adduced, and in this manner no preference will be allowed any particular bidder over others. We think there is merit to this contention. An accounting should be had on the part of the Hansards and the exact amount decreed due and payable, if any, in addition to the amount due under the terms of the final decree dated December 8, 1939, now absolute; and that all relevant, disputed and conflicting items or claims now existing between the parties incident and material to the foreclosure proceedings should be determined and set at rest by a decree of the court prior to a resale of the mortgaged premises.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 601 West 26 Corp. v. Equity Capital Co.

2. ““When the special master’s deed and the order confirming the delivery thereof were held invalid, the owner of the equity of the redemption was entitled, in the absence of some lawful reason, to the possession of the mortgaged premises. The petition filed in the lower court for an order of restitution appears to he fully sustained by the record and it was error on the part of the chancellor to deny said petition. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 601 West 26 Corp. v. Equity Capital Co.

3. ““ * * * [T]he chancellor below is directed (a) to carry out the mandate of this court previously issued in this cause and in so doing he is hereby directed to make and enter an order instanter restoring the possession of the mortgaged premises to H. E. Orr, the owner of the equity of redemption, and to issue process necessary to render effective the order of restoration.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 601 West 26 Corp. v. Equity Capital Co.