Beekman v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court instructs you that the presumption of payment after twenty years may be rebutted by a preponderance of testimony showing that the plaintiff had used diligence to enforce his judgment, or that the defendant was insolvent for twenty years prior to the nineteenth of March, 1889, when this action was commenced, or other circumstances of the situation of the parties which tend to excuse the plaintiff for non-issuance of execution within said period of twenty years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Pendleton v. Holman

2. ““ * * * There is no doubt that the particular evidence specified in the instruction given [referring to the instruction hereinbefore quoted] was competent for the purpose of rebutting the presumption of payment, but nevertheless it was not absolutely indispensable to the plaintiff’s recovery that he had ‘used diligence’ or had any ‘excuse’ for not doing so, if he could prove by competent evidence that the judgment had not in fact been paid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Pendleton v. Holman