De Hass v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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. ““Know all men by these presents: For. value received we promise to pay John D. Knox & Co., on order, §3,000.00 lawful money of the United States, 5 years after date hereof, with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, payable semiannually on the 15th day of December and June in each year, according to the tenor of 10 interest coupons for §120.00 each, herein annexed and bearing even date herewith. “Said principal and interest being payable at the banking house of John D. Knox & Co., Topeka, Kan. It is expressly declared and agreed that this note and coupons hereto attached are made and executed under, and are to be construed by, the laws of the state of Kansas, in every particular, and are given for an actual loan of §3,000.00. This note and these coupons aro to draw 12 per cent, interest per annum after maturity, and are secured by a first mortgage on real estate. “And if any of the interest coupons shall not be paid when due, the whole ,of the principal shall mature and be due at said time without demand, and said principal debt and said unpaid coupons shall represent and stand for the amount due, and the unpaid coupon first matured shall become a part of the principal, and the whole of said principal and the first unpaid coupon shall bear 12 per cent, per annum interest thereon from the maturity of said coupon until paid. “Topeka, Kansas, this 15th day of June, A. D. 1887. “R. J. McFarland, “Ida McFarland.” Indorsed: “For value received we hereby assign and ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. De Hass v. Dibert

2. ““First: Whether under the evidence, to wit, the writing sued on, and the attached guaranty and the mortgage securing said obligation, and the writing sued on, dated the 15th day of June, 1887, for §3,000, payable to the order of John D. Knox & Co., is a negotiable commercial instrument. “Second: Whether the indorsement of John Dibert & Company after the assignment, without recourse made by John D. Knox & Company, the payees, upon the writings sued pro ut, same in evidence, made the said John Dibert & Company liable as indorsers of negotiable commercial paper, the transfer from John D. Knox & Co. to John Dibert & Co., and the transfer of John Dibert & Co. to F. S. De Haas, haying been made in the state of Kansas. “Third: Whether the plaintiff is entitled to recover interest at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum from the date of protest of the writings sued on to the date of verdict, the law of Kansas authorizing the making of contracts bearing such rate of interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. De Hass v. Dibert