Varney v. Harlow’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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

1. ““It would hardly seem that the referee’s lights should be different merely because, for the convenience of the bondholders, they were excused from paying §90,000 and getting §87,955 back. The payment of the latter sum was as effectually made to them by crediting it on their bonds as it could have been in any other form. It does not seem wise to make substantial rights depend upon such unessential differences. The way of making payments adopted in this case is far the simplest and most convenient for everybody. Nothing is to be gained by holding that if it be adopted the referee will lose what would come to him if the more roundabout and troublesome method of doing the same thing were employed. The learned judge below recognized that the trustee was entitled to commissions on the full amount' of the purchase price, as being a sum disbursed by him or turned over to lienholders.””

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