Malakoff v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the duty of [the officer selling the property] to first pay to the Collector the amount of said taxes out of the proceeds of said sale before making any payment of any moneys to any judgment creditor or other claimants of whatsoever kind or nature.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pearlstein v. U. S. Small Business Administration (In re Sardis) · Pearlstein v. U.S. Small Business Administration

2. “the business or property of any person subject to tax under the terms of this chapter, shall be placed in ... bankruptcy ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pearlstein v. Small Business Administration · Pearlstein v. U.S. Small Business Administration

3. “The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), effective in the District of Columbia on January 1, 1965, preserves this common-law principle [of first in time, first in right], but refines it through the general rule that a party who first notifies the public of his security interest in a particular piece of property, either through possession of the collateral or filing of his financing statement (so-called “perfection”), prevails over all other parties with a security interest in the same collateral, regardless of which party first acquired the security interest itself (so-called “attachment”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCarthy v. BMW Bank of North America (In Re Dorton)