Ambrose v. Parrott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The note although secured by the mortgage is nevertheless the principal thing, and the mortgage is only an incident thereto, merely a security for the payment or collection of the note/3”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stahl v. Wade · Liberty Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Jones

2. ““If, however, the various causes of action set forth in the plaintiff’s petition were so manifestly obvious that the court must have readily taken notice of them by a bare inspection of the petition and without any specific designation of them in the defendants’ motion, then they were necessarily so manifestly obvious that the defendants themselves should also have taken notice of them, and would not have experienced any considerable inconvenience in pointing them out in their motion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Everett

3. ““A promissory note and a mortgage executed to secure the same, taken together, constitute only one cause of action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stahl v. Wade