Baum v. Grigsby’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is simply a right to resort to the property upon a failure of payment by the vendee. It does not arise from any agreement of the parties, but is the creatuie of equity, and is established solely for the security of the vendor. It is founded upon the natural justice of allowing a party to reach the property which he has transferred to satisfy the debt which constitutes the consideration of the transfer. It is therefore the personal privilege of the vendor. The assignee of a note given for the purchase money stands in a very different position. He has not parted with the property which he seeks to reach in consideration of the note he has received. He has never held tlie property and has therefore no special claims upon equity to subject it to sale for his benefit. The particular equity of the vendor in this respect cannot, in the nature of things, be asserted by another.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First Nat. Bank of Salem v. Salem Capital Flour-Mills Co.