In re A. B. Baxter & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. ““It is impossible to contradict the testimony of a witness as to his state of mind by direct evidence, unless he has made impeaching statements, and such testimony, where it is that of an interested party, is entitled to but little weight if it is inconsistent with the reasonable presumptions arising from circumstantial evidence. The probability that an intelligent man who enters upon a course of speculative dealings with a bucket shop does so with the understanding that the purchases or sales are to be merely colorable is so strong as to amount to a presumption of fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lawton v. Carpenter

2. ““The courts ought not to indulge in any violent or improbable inferences from the facts to assist either of the parties to such dealings or to differentiate their dealings from ordinary gambling transactions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lawton v. Carpenter