Nichols v. Sober’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““ The law has always been solicitous to exclude any rules calculated to hinder the free circulation of mercantile’ paper having legitimate inception, as in this case, and it is settled in this State that a transferee cannot be deprived of his right as a bona fide holder in this class of cases, except upon evidence sufficient to show his participation in the fraud, or equivalent misconduct of the party who transfers to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Ottaway