Young v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis

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45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) A printed form entitled “Veterans Administration Appraisal Report,” bearing a penciled map and plan, photographs of a house, and typewritten insertions showing the lender to be the Bank of America; the veteran to be a stranger to this action; the property to be the same as that described in the complaint and cross-complaint in the instant action; bearing the purported signature of Ernest Adams under the printed words “Appraiser’s Signature,” the printed statement that the appraiser estimates the “Reasonable Value” “as is”, and the typewritten figure $11,600.00; and showing the date to be November 7, 1947. (2) A printed form entitled “Home Loan Report” which bears a carbon copy of typewritten insertions therein showing veteran’s name to be James R. Cole; amount of loan $10,000; title to the property described in the purported appraisal to be fee simple in respondents as joint tenants; the total to be paid to the contractor $11,600; other expenses $220.00; that the price to be paid by the veteran does not exceed the value thereof as determined by proper appraisal dated November 7, 1947, made by appraiser Ernest Adams; and that the veteran, James R. Cole, over his signature and over.the date February 14, 1948, requests “the Administrator to endorse my honorable discharge or certificate of eligibility for $4,000.00 of the guarantee benefit available to me,” said form also bearing the purported signature of Harry Christensen, as manager of the 25th and Central Branch Number 35”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 155 Cal. App. 2d 8 - Cole v. Ames

2. ““ * * * By section 694a of that statute, the government endeavors to assure terms of payment which bear a proper relation to the veteran’s present and anticipated income and expenses. The requirement of the same section that the price to be paid by the veteran for the cost of construction shall not exceed the reasonable value as established by a designated appraiser was obviously enacted to protect the borrower from acquiring property at an exhorbitant price. That this was the legislative intent is manifest from the discussions at the time enactment of the statute was being considered. (Congressional Record, Vol. 90, Pt. 4, p. 4649 (May 12, 1944, to June 12, 1944). “ * * * a contract which is contrary to the policy of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act is also unenforceable. To hold otherwise would invite builders to exact similar secret contracts with the assurance that they would be upheld.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bamber v. Mayeux