Southern Ry. Co. v. Bouknight’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What may be the effect of those statutes, in this regard, upon mortgages which were created prior to the statute of 1852, it is unnecessary at present to inquire. The mortgages of the complainant were not created prior tó that statute, but long subsequent thereto. When the complainant took its mortgages, it knew what the law was. It knew that by the law, if the mortgaged lots should be supplied with Passaic water by the city authorities,the rent of that water, as regulated and exacted by them, would be a first-lien on the lots. It chose to take these mortgages subject to this law, and" it is idle to contend that a postponement of its lien to that of the water rents, whether after accruing or not, is a deprivation of its property without due process of law. Its own voluntary act — its own consent--is an element in the transaction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. King v. Thompson

2. “not simply as establishing the fact of its rendition, but as proof of when the action was brought, what for, and the amount”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mike's Train House, Inc. v. Lionel, L.L.C.