Nowell v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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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. “■‘As to the delay of the intervener Endicott in asserting his rights, his testimony is that, he did not discover the fraud until some six months after the stockholders’ meeting, and that at that time, in a conversation with Thomas S. Nowell, the latter informed him that the reason why the mines had not been conveyed was ‘that they could not convey them, for they had not procured the patent- yet.’ Endicott testified, further, that thereafter he made search for Nowell’s letter to him of June 3, 1896, concerning the proposed sale of the 15 mining claims to the company, hut that he could not find it until 1900, and that thereafter Nowell was making endeavors to sell the Berner’s Bay and Johnson property together, and that he (Endicott) was more anxious to realize on such deal than to delay the consummation of the same by litigation over the title of the Johnson properties. But he testified that, on finding the letter, he sent a copy thereof to Nowell, and informed him ‘that we consider we have at least a moral claim on the Johnson property.’ ’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nowell v. International Trust Co.