Douglas v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The plaintiff’s testimony tended to show a general and also a special ownership of the bonds in himself, and a right to the possession thereof. ... If Douglas bought the bonds for Harwood, with Harwood’s money, and bought them in his own name, then he was entitled to the possession, and had an interest in the bonds, because, by reason of the purchase in his own name, he had incurred a responsibility to Harwood greater than if bought in Harwood’s name. He stood charged with Harwood’s money. If he bought the bonds for him and in his name, then he might say to Harwood, T have bought your bonds, but they have been seized by the sheriff without fault of mine; you must look to him for them.’ If bought in the name-of plaintiff, he was responsible to Harwood for their delivery, and had to repossess himself of them by action to enable him to make such a.delivery.” (Pages 9.1, 93.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McDonald v. Daniels