Davey v. Ruffell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 23 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The act is to be read as though the word ‘creditors’ was not in it, and in this respect the Act of 1775 is unchanged. The rule as it is understood under the old law is the rule under the Act of 1893, except as to the length of time allowed for recording. ... It results from this examination of the Act of 1893 that it is effective to change the law as it stood before, in only one particular, viz, it reduces the time within which a purchaser must record his deed from six months to ninety days. In all other respects the law remains as it was before. The learned judge of the court below reached a correct conclusion upon the facts submitted to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engstrom v. Siegel

2. ““The important facts in this case are few. They have been relieved of all uncertainty by the agreement of the parties embodied in the case stated.' The legal questions raised by them relate to the construction and effect of the Act of Assembly of May 19, 1893, P. L. 108.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engstrom v. Siegel