Brown v. Magers’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Defendant, W. D. Magers, in open court requests permission to furnish surety for payment of such judgment as might be entered on the petition of plaintiff and in connection therewith requests that the funds deposited with the Clerk of this court on February 8, 1957 and the bond dated February 8, 1957 in the amount of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) signed by W. D. Magers, principal, and W. R. Harris, surety, and filed with the Clerk of this court on February 8, 1957, be accepted as such surety and that the lien claim of plaintiff be transferred to said funds on deposit and bond and the real property involved in this action discharged of any lien, and the court having considered said request and being fully advised in the premises, and there being no objection made by any party hereto, “IT IS ORDERED that the deposit of Four Thousand Five Hundred Eighty-one and 45/100 Dollars ($4,581.-45), made by W. D. Magers with the Clerk of this court on February 8, 1957, and the bond filed with the Clerk of this Court on February 8, 1957, signed by W. D. Magers, as principal and W. R. Harris, as surety, a copy of which is attached to plaintiff’s petition filed herein, be and the same are hereby collectively approved as a surety bond for the payment of such judgment as might be entered in favor of plaintiff herein and the materialman’s lien claim of plaintiff is hereby transferred to said bond, and the real property involved in this action is released and discharged from the mater”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Magers v. Brown-Mcclure Lumber Company