Smith v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But it is also objected that the fact that defendants bought the demands at a very great discount is evidence that they did not hold them in good faith. This objection, however, evidently proceeds upon a misapprehension of the meaning of the term ‘ good faith ’ as used in the statute in reference to the ownership of the claims offered in set-off. All that the statute contemplates is that the demands shall be actually and not merely colorably owned by the defendants, and the actual ownership by the defendants is not disputed in this case. The amount they paid for them is immaterial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barker ex rel. Union National Bank v. Barth