Teall v. Schroder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Pretending to act as attorney in fact of Teall, he executed and delivered to one A.L. Rhodes a deed of release and quitclaim of all of the premises, bearing date as of the 1st day of August, 1857, and reciting a consideration of $5000, and that on the same day said A.L. Rhodes, by a similar deed, with a similar consideration recited, reconveyed all of the premises to Devine; that the conveyances were acknowledged on the 17th day of September, 1857, and were recorded on the 8th day of October thereafter, and have ever since remained on the records of the county of Santa Clara.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Teall v. Schroder

2. “An action for relief on the ground of fraud or mistake must be brought within four years after the cause of action accrues; the cause of action in such case not to be deemed to have accrued until the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts constituting the fraud or mistake.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Teall v. Schroder

3. “An action for relief, not hereinbefore provided for, must be commenced within four years after the cause of action shall have accrued.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Teall v. Schroder