Cates v. Pentecost’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute saves for six months the real estate left by a decedent for the security of his creditors, during which period the creditors may secure liens on any and all land left by the decedent by instituting an action to subject it. [Citing authorities.] “But, if no such suit is filed within six months, the land sold is not liable, in the hands of a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration, to be subjected to the payment of the ancestor’s debts. Such is the very language of the statute. [Citing ease.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. Riedling