Longley v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““We hold that the administrator can only maintain such action as the intestate might, if living. He represents the intestate; he steps into no other right. As between the fraudulent vendor and vendee, the transfer is good. Such conveyances are void only as to creditors. This is the well-settled doctrine in Ohio. Hence, as between the vendor and vendee in this case, the vendor had no rights, and of course his administrator could have none. But it is said that, unless we sustain a suit of this sort on the part of the administrator, creditors will have no remedy. This does not follow. When a bill shall be filed for that purpose, it will be time to consider of it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Farmers' & Mechanics' Nat. Bank of Cadiz