Cox v. . Boyden’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The docketing of a judgment is not an essential condition of its efficacy nor a precedent requisite to an enforcement by final process. It is only necessary to create and prolong the lien thus acquired for the benefit of the creditor against subsequent liens, encumbrances, and conveyances of the same property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bernhardt v. . Brown

2. “Under the present system no lien is acquired upon land in the absence of an execution and levy , until the judgment has been docketed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bernhardt v. . Brown