In re Russell’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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

1. ““(3) obtained property on credit from any person upon a materially false statement in writing made to such person for the purpose of obtaining such property on credit.””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Simon · In re Zoffer

2. ““If the statement of January 26tb, which Russell gave to the reporter sent to Mm by the Bradstreet Company, is to be considered as merely the usual commercial agency report filed with sneli agency to secure a rating, then, not having been made to the Trust Company for the purpose of obtaining the property or [on] credit, it is not within the language of the act.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Novick v. E. P. Reed & Co.

3. ““It would seem from this that the ordinary statement of financial condition' made to a mercantile agency for general circulation among its inquiring subscribers would not be within the statute.””

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