Green v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute is both penal and criminal. For its violation the penalty of the forfeiture of the agreed purchase price of the article sold is imposed, and the note or notes executed for the purchase price which do. not conform to the requirements of. the statute are rendered void in the hands of an innocent purchaser, and, in addition, a fine of $300 may be- imposed for a violation of the statute. As the statute is penal and criminal, it must, for both reasons, be strictly construed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Broadway Bank of Kansas City v. Mason