Costello v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Fraud enters into the making of a negotiable instrument in two classes of cases. In one case fraud may induce a person to assent to do something he would not otherwise have done. In the other it causes him to believe that the act he does is something other than it actually is. In the first case the act of the defrauded person is operative, though voidable, and the instrument is good in the hands of a holder in due course. Such fraud, often referred to as ‘fraud in the inducement/ is a good defense against a person other than a holder in due course . ” (emphasis ours)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berry v. Abilene Savings Association