Swain v. Lynd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither was it necessary for the plaintiff to allege that the mortgaged premises were worth more than the amount due on the mortgage. It cannot be held, as a matter of law, that nothing could be realized on a sale of the equity of redemption, even if the amount due on the mortgage was equal to or in excess of the value of the land. The plaintiff ought at least to be allowed to test the matter without being obstructed or trammeled by the record proof of an apparently valid foreclosure, which was in fact invalid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peaslee v. Ridgway