Thorn v. Dill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is apparent that, under the evidence, the appellant [Thorn] has no right under the homestead claim set up by him; for there was not only an intention to abandon the land as a homestead, but there was an actual abandonment, and another homestead was acquired and used by him for some time late, in the year 1878 until some time in the spring of 1881. It may be true that, as the sale of the land by Thorn to Forsythe was by parol, that technically no vendor’s lien existed; but it appears from the evidence that it was agreed, between Thorn, Dill, and Forsythe, that Forsythe should take up the two notes which Thorn had given to Dill,- and that instead of the same Forsythe should execute to Dill his notes for a like sum, and that such notes should be secured by a lien upon the land sold by verbal sale to For-sythe by-Thorn. Under such facts, Thorn could not be heard to say that such conveyance had not been—made by -him- to Forsythe as would support and raise even a vendor’s lien, he having induced Dill to claim that such a state of facts existed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brannon v. Lancaster Bros.