Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he use of the words “actually due” and “the default actually existing” was intended by the legislature to permit reinstatement by the payment of only what was delinquent, plus the costs set out in the statute, without requiring the accelerated principal to be tendered.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Trust Co., Inc. v. Leibman · In re Norwest Bank Metrowest National Ass'n

2. “In any proceedings for the foreclosure of a real estate mortgage, whether by action or by advertisement, if at any time before the sale of the premises under such foreclosure the mortgagor, the owner, or any holder of any subsequent encumbrance or lien, or any one for them, shall pay or cause to be paid to the holder of the mortgage so being foreclosed, or to the attorney foreclosing the same, or to the sheriff of the county, the amount actually due thereon and constituting the default actually existing in the conditions of the mortgage at the time of the commencement of the foreclosure proceedings, * * * then, and in that event, the mortgage shall be fully reinstated and further proceedings in such foreclosure shall be thereupon abandoned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Norwest Bank Metrowest National Ass'n

3. “adopted in response to hardships experienced by mortgagors resulting from the depressed economic condition of the times,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oleisky v. Midwest Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n Minneapolis