Robinson v. Leach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “It is contended that the cause of action meant is, the claim that the plaintiff makes and declares upon as the ground of his suit, and which is to be litigated on trial. But this construction is too strict. The words, “causes of action,” are evidently used in a sense broad enough to embrace the debt as distinguished from the evidence of it. The statute is the same for the purposes of this case as though it read, “debts existing,” etc. Hence, if the original debt can be said to exist, the case is with the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weale v. Lund

2. “The new note was but a new evidence of the old debt. True, the old notes were extinguished as affording a ground or cause of action, but the debt evidenced thereby continued to exist for the purpose of preserving the right against the homestead that was originally connected with it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brattleboro Savings and Loan Association v. Hardie