Mary Osin v. Robert H. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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17 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a bona fide purchaser’s rights have always been held superior to prior equitable interests____ The same rationale does not have equal validity when applied to judgment creditors____ A judgment creditor possessing a statutory hen on property does not occupy a position equivalent to that of a purchaser for value.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunnicutt Construction, Inc. v. Stewart Title & Trust of Tucson Trust No. 3496 · Associates Financial Services of America, Inc. v. District of Columbia

2. “The record demonstrates, and the lower court so found, that the holders of the deed of trust were innocent purchasers for value without notice of [the constructive trust beneficiary’s] prior equity, and thus they clearly fall within the purview of the recording act 9 ... protecting bona fide purchasers against unrecorded conveyances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Associates Financial Services of America, Inc. v. District of Columbia

3. “[a] constructive trust arises where a person who holds title to property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if permitted to retain it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Auto-Train Corp. v. Midland-Ross Corp.