Denison v. Shuler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Had it been intended that the kind of lien in ques tion should operate retrospectively and override prior securities executed to secure purchase money it is not to be supposed that the legislature would have left the purpose in, any doubt. “The view to which these observations lead is that the effect of the transaction between the mortgagors and the defendants respecting the repairs in question was to give a lien to the defendants on the equity or right of redemption and subject of course to the plaintiff’s mortgage. The lien did not apply to the plaintiff’s interest, but was confined to that of the mortgagors. The plaintiff was entitled to have possession under his mortgage without paying defendants, and the latter were entitled, if they desired, to redeem against the mortgage.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dallas County State Bank v. Crismon · Sloat v. Mid-West Finance Corp.

2. ““That a prior lien gives a prior claim which is entitled to prior satisfaction out of the subject it binds.” Rankin v. Scott, 12 Wheat. (U. S.) 177, 179.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sloat v. Mid-West Finance Corp.