Roberts v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““All transfers of the notes, bonds, bills of exchange, or other evidences of debt owing to any national banking association, or of deposits to its credit; all assignments of mortgages; * * * and all deposits of money, bullion, or other valuable tilings for its use, or for the use of any of its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, — made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a view of a preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Hill