Russell v. Thatcher’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true, that part of the money invested in the property conveyed by the deed in trust, (or its equivalent) was received by Thatcher from his wife’s property; but it was received and originally invested by him as his own, and in his own name; and he could not subject it to a voluntary trust after he had incurred debts, and that possibly on the credit of this property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hull v. Hudson