Jones v. Radatz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Stipulations collateral to the obligation, such as relating to security, or to the remedy to enforce the obligation, have been held not to affect the negotiable character of the instrument. But we know of no case which concedes that the fixed character of the obligation may be changed, either by making it uncertain as to amount or time of payment, or person by whom or to whom payable, or by making it depend to any extent on a contingency without depriving the instrument of the negotiability. Certainty in these respects is essential to negotiability.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hardin v. Olson

2. ““ The instrument before us has this certainty as to the-$135, and the interest. But the whole instrument must be taken together. The promise to pay the $135 and interest is not the whole of the promise, — not the entire obligation created. The entire promise and obligation is to pay absolutely that sum and interest, and in a particular contingency, to wit, the bringing suit by the payee after default, to pay a further amount not fixed, and not capable of being ascertained from the instrument itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Altman v. Rittershofer

3. ““$135. St. Paul, September 7, 1878. “Three months after date we, or either of us, promise to-pay to H. K. White & Co., or bearer, $135, payable at the Second National Bank of St. Paul, Minnesota, for value received, with 12 per cent, interest per annum from date, and reasonable attorney’s fees, if suit be instituted for the-collection of this note. (Signed) “---.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Altman v. Rittershofer