Spain v. Hamilton's Administrator’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 8 district · 30 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order to perfect Ms title against the debtor it is indispensable that the assignee should immediately give notice of the assignment to the debtor, for otherwise a priority of right may he obtained by a subsequent assignee, or the debt may be discharged by a payment to the assignee before such notice.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. · Methven v. Staten Island Light, Heat & Power Co.

2. ““Where a paper does not contain a promise to pay anything absolutely in addition to the loan and the interest, and the payment of anything additional depends upon a contingency, and not upon the happening of a certain event, it is not sufficient to make a loan usurious.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Unity Plan Finance Co. v. Green

3. ““To constitute an assignment of a debt or other chose in action, no particular form is necessary. * * * Any order, writing, or act which make’s an appropriation of a fund, amounts to an equitable assignment of the fund.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pacific Coast Co. v. Anderson