Ashbaugh v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is not a limitless remedy to be applied according to the measure of the conscience of the particular chancellor any more than, as an illustrious law writer said, to the measure of his foot. . . . In vain would a statute prescribe the limit of a curator's power to mortgage his ward's property if a court of equity should, by giving it another name, whether it be subrogation or equitable lien, invest an unauthorized deed with substantially the same effect it would have had if it had been expressly authorized by the statute." [ Id. at 677 , 2 N.W.2d 810 , quoting Capen v. Garrison, 193 Mo. 335, 349-350 , 92 S.W. 368 (1906).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Moukalled