Davidson v. Lanier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “•“The delivery of a bill of exchange signed and indorsed in blank only authorizes the receiver, as between himself and the drawer and indorser, to fill it up in conformity with the authority given him. If there has been no agreement, the authority is general; if there has, it must be pursued. The burden of proof that there was an agreement and that its terms have been violated is, in such a case, upon the defendant; but if he can make the proof it will avail him. No person, unless authorized, either directly or by just inference from the nature of the transaction, can fill up a blank bill for its own benefit. Nor can such a bill be enforced against the drawer and indorser in favor of anyone who takes it in bad faith; that is, with knowledge that it has been filled up without authority or in fraud. 3 Kent Com., 119; 19 Sm. & Marsh. 590.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American National Bank of Wetumka v. Hightower

2. “to erect, establish, institute or put in operation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 Ill. App. 3d 14 - In Re App. of People Ex Rel. Walgenbach