Hadley v. Adsit’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. ““We think that if this transfer was made for the purpose of defrauding the creditors .of Linthicum it tainted the entire transaction with fraud from its inception ; that if the plaintiff acted with a fraudulent purpose in the final purchase of this stock and fixtures, it destroyed all the acts of good faith that may have preceded. It was his duty, in taking the mortgage and possession under it, after he became aware of the pressing demands of wholesale houses for payment from the mortgagor, to act in all subsequent matters in good faith toward the creditors of Linthicum, and if he entered into any scheme thereafter to prevent the creditors from receiving the surplus over and above the payment of his claim it was a fraud from its inception. We think this instruction was correct, under the evidence in this case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McDonald v. Swisher