Dawson v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The doctrine is certainly established as part of the equity jurisprudence, and rests upon the solid basis of principle that prior equitable interests in rem, including equitable liens upon specific parcels of land, have priority of right over the general statutory lien of subsequent docketed judgments, although the latter is legal in its nsture. Judgment creditors are not ‘purchasers,’ within the meaning of the recording acts, and, unless expressly put upon the same footing, they do not obtain the benefit which a subsequent purchaser does by a prior record. The equitable doctrine is that a judgment, and the legal lien of its docket, binds only the actual ihterest of the judgment debtor, and is subject to all existing equities which are valid as against such debtor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pacific State Bank v. Coats

2. ““It is immaterial whether the mortgagee is strictly a bona fide purchaser within the meaning of the statute. The question is whether the judgment creditor is a bona fide purchaser, and thus within the protection of the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pacific State Bank v. Coats