In re Koelle’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““It is a notorious fact, of which I think the court may take judicial cognizance, that intending vendors of merchandise are peculiarly sensitive regarding debts for borrowed money. They are apt to look into them with a microscopic eye. They induce suspicion of themselves, and very justly so; lor it is also a matter of common knowledge that such liabilities are earliest discharged, if the creditors are related by blood or marriage, when doubt, arises as to ability to pay all creditors. * * * The padding of a statement by doubtful assets may be regarded as hut an unconscious expression of undue hopefulness, and in an illiterate man may perhaps be looked upon with a benevolent eye; but the suppression of all indebtedness for borrowed money is. I think, a particularly flagrant form of material falsity: First, because it is a suppression of truth especially calculated to prevent further inquiry; and. second, because its omission is the omission of something particularly and always present in the mind of the debtor. It cannot be inadvertent. It must be deliberate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Arenson