Cauble v. . Trexler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 27 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The primary object of the statute is relief to farmers from the load of oppressive debts, and any benefit to the creditors of the farmer is merely incidental. * * * “While this particular subject does not seem to have been treated heretofore by this Court, the courts of other jurisdictions have dealt with it in well considered opinions, and have held almost uniformly, that notes and mortgages, given by a former debtor, to his creditor to make up and secure the difference between the amount paid under a scale-down settlement pursuant to the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, supra, and the amount originally owed, are contrary to public policy and void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gore v. George J. Ball, Incorporated

2. “[W]here the law-making power speaks on a particular subject over which it has power to legislate, public policy in such cases is what the law enacts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 120 N.C. App. 707 - Williams v. Williams

3. “when they tend clearly among other things to injure `the public confidence in the purity of the administration of the law,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 67 N.C. App. 1 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Edwards