Phillips v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ This statute is only intended to assist persons paying the consideration to reclaim property while it is in the possession of the person who took the deed to himself in violation of the trust, without the consent of the person paying the consideration, or, while it is held by a volunteer or purchaser with notice of the trust, it does not apply when the rights of creditors or purchasers in good faith and without notice have intervened. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thrasher v. Craft