Ames v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And when the agreement is that the mortgagor shall procure insurance upon the mortgaged property, payable in case of loss to the mortgagee, and the mortgagor, or some one for him, procures insurance in the mortgagor’s or a third person’s name, without making it payable to the mortgagee, though this be done without the mortgagee’s knowledge, or without any intent to perform the agreement, equity will treat the insurance as effected under the agreement, (unless this has been fulfilled in some other way,) and will give the mortgagee his equitable lien accordingly. This is upon the principle by which equity treats that as done which ought to have been done. That is to say, inasmuch as the insurance effected ought to have been made payable to the mortgagee, equity will give the mortgagee the same benefit from it as if it had been.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First National Bank of Pocatello v. Commercial Union Assurance Co.