Pink v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
November 1951
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Mortgage Commission · Matter of Title Mortgage Guaranty Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it should take very clear and unambiguous language in the certificates to overcome that rule and substitute a holding that in spite of its guarantee of payment it should be permitted to share in the available assets even though the certificates which it had guaranteed should be paid remained unpaid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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