Lawson v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““That a person in possession of a bond is thereby shown to have the right to receive the moneys it calls for, is a doctrine that has neither decision nor dictum for its sanction. If such a doctrine prevailed, it would deprive investments in such securities of much of their supposed safety. Such, fortunately, is not the law. Therefore, in the present case, if these securities had been confided to this man Leslie in such form that, without any misconduct on his part, it would have been in his power to manifest his possession of them, such unconditioned fact would have offered not the least ground for the inference of an agency to cancel them on the receipt of the moneys due. The present decree could not stand in the presence of such a showing as this. Much less can it be supported when the important fact is added that the securities were not entrusted to Leslie with the right to exhibit them in the way supposed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First National Bank in Creston v. Gorman