Bernard Farrar and Joseph Brown v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On this state of facts the bill of exceptions asserts three ground's of defense: (1) That the sureties could not be liable at all for the money so paid. (2) That, if at all, they ought to be let into proof that Rector had appropriated the m'oney to his own use before the date of the bond. Or (3) * * * “On these points we feel no difficulty in affirming that for any sums paid to Rector prior to the execution of the bond there is but one ground on which the sureties could be held answerable to the United States, and that is on the assumption that he still held the money in the bank or otherwise. * * * They ought therefore to have been let into proof of the actual state of facts, so vitally important to their defense; * * * since this defense goes, not to discharge a liability incurred, but to' negative its ever existing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Bonding & Trust Co. v. Coons