Phillips v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And it has long been established that the jurisdiction of the [equity] court having once attached [by the filing of the mortgagor’s suit to enforce his equity of redemption] is not lost by a subsequent foreclosure of the mortgage by a sale thereunder. The court’s jurisdiction is not thereafter ousted by a foreclosure proceeding, although no temporary injunction was issued to prevent it. While the foreclosure thus had is not absolutely suspended by the mere filing of the bill, yet its exercise is subject to the equity of the bill and to be set aside by the court if complainant is awarded relief, (emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. First State Bank of Alabama