In re Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. ““And the statute itself is not without an indication that such is its true construction. It includes two classes of persons — purchasers for a valuable consideration without notice and creditors. Though it is not so expressed, the purchasers included are subsequent purchasers. It is expressly required that they be without notice. A purchaser has a hold on the property purchased, and he hak acquired it by his own activity. In connection with this class of persons then we find the four qualifications, subsequent, without notice, having a hold on the property, and that acquired by their own activity. Placed in the same category with them is another class of persons, to wit, creditors. Applying the maxim, ‘Noseitur a soeiis,’ is it not to be taken that the creditors called for are not the creditors generally, but subsequent', without notice, and who have acquired a hold on the property by their own activity J””

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