Scott v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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. “The intent with which the release was made and not the making of the release is the thing which governs, and that intent should be determined by the interest of respondent, the holder of the first deed of trust. We say this because Bishop the holder of the second deed trust, or part with anything of value, or change his position in any manner whatsoever relying upon the fact that the first deed of trust had been released. The deed of trust appeared of record at the time Bishop acquired the second. He knew at the time he took the second deed of trust that his security was the equity in the land over and above the first deed of trust. He cannot be harmed by the restoration of the lien of the first deed of trust. In event of such restoration, he would then have exactly the same security he had at the time he acquired his second deed of trust. Equity will not permit him to reap where he has not sown.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riggs v. Kellner