Moore v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““The judgment is not ¡i confession of judgment. 0 St. at Large, pp. 160, 161, §§ 1, 2: 11 St. at Large, pp. 72, 75; 3 Blackstone, 395. It is a consent judgment by the court. But under our statutes there can be no difference in the grades of judgments as to the matter of interest. The judgment cannot be considered as a contract, for a contract in its final analysis made by debtor with creditor is but a right of action conveyed by the debtor to the creditor, and the right of action ceases with the judgment, which is but the sentence of the law pronounced by the court. If the contract or note upon which the Judgment is based liad borne no rate of interest, still the judgment; would bear interest at the legal rate of 7 per centum per annum. So the judgment could not bear a higher rate of interest, even though the note bore a rate exceeding seven per centum per annum.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Willcox v. Jones