Carson v. Arctic Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““And, it being established that a right of action exists for an unpaid call, it is difficult to maintain the proposition that anything short of complete satisfaction by payment will discharge it; and, in our opinion, it can only be done by the arbitrary adoption of a rule in favor of stock operators, utterly repugnant to those which govern every other class of citizens. If the effect of a sale, unlike that of a forfeiture, is to foreclose a security, and not to rescind a contract, it should also be to satisfy pro tanto the debt secured, leaving to the company the further remedy by action for the deficiency, if one exists, as in all other cases; and we should be extremely reluctant to .recognize as authority any adjudications holding a contrary rule, unless based upon some principle not hitherto developed."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Atlantic Dynamite Co. v. Andrews