Jessup v. . Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
July 1930
most recently cited
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiffs must show that the assets of the estate were sufficient to pay his debts before they could ask the court to decree that they recover this land and its rents when the creditors had not been paid in full.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jessup v. . Nixon
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