Douglass v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 12 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The facts alleged in the complaint do not show any wrong peculiar to plaintiffs or to Miley Jones, to whom the certificate of deposit was issued. There is no allegation that defendants or either of them made any representation to her individually as to the condition of the bank, prior to the making of the deposit, originally, or while the same was in the bank. The statements alleged to have been published, showing that the bank was solvent and worthy of credit were not made to Miley Jones alone but, as alleged in the complaint, to Miley Jones and the public. The loss which plaintiffs have sustained by reason of the insolvency of the bank is an injury to them, in common with other creditors and depositors of the Farmers’ Bank & Trust Company. The facts alleged in the complaint do not constitute a cause of action against defendants upon which plaintiffs alone may recover. Sums recovered of defendants, as damages for the negligence and wrongful acts alleged in the complaint as the cause of the insolvency of the bank, would be assets of the bank, and should be recovered by the receiver, as the representative of all who have claims upon or interest in such assets.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estate of the Arizona Bank v. White