Rosenberg v. Robbert’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. ““Defendant attempted to explain his failure to advise plaintiff’s counsel that the note was a forgery, by stating: T informed my attorneys that it was a forgery.’ “This explanation does not appear to us satisfactory, as any reasonable man would, as a matter of self-interest, brand a note as a forgery, if it were so, as soon as it was presented to him, and especially would a reasonable man do so in the office of an attorney at law in the possession of the note, and who would in all probability bring suit against him as the maker of the note for its collection. Silence, under such circumstances, strongly indicates that the note in question was not a forgery, for self-interest naturally dictates self-protection at all times.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White System of Shreveport v. Theus

2. ““If the defendant deny his signature in his answer, or contend that the same has been counterfeited, the plaintiff must prove the genuineness of such signature, either by witnesses who have seen the defendant sign the act, or who declare that they know it to be his signature, because they have frequently seen him write and sign his name. “But the proof by witnesses shall not exclude the proof by experts or by a comparison of the writing, as established by the' Civil Code.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White System of Shreveport v. Theus

3. ““If the party disavow the signature, or the heirs or other representatives declare that they do not know it, it must be proved by witnesses or comparison, as in other cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White System of Shreveport v. Theus