Drury v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The scheme to acquire the property of this corporation was, in its inception, fraudulent, and every step in the progress of its execution was necessarily stamped with the same character.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 16 Cal. App. 375 - Pierce v. Pierce · Hall v. Miller

2. ““The transactions which this case discloses cannot be sustained by a court of equity. The conduct of the directors of this railroad corporation was very discreditable and without authority of law. It was their duty to administer the important matters committed to their charge, for the mutual benefit of all parties interested, and in securing an advantage to themselves, not common to the other creditors, they were guilty of a plain breach, of trust.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Union Coal Co. v. Wooley

3. “was calculated to destroy all competition among the bidders, and, indeed, to exclude from the purchase everyone, except those engaged in the perpetration of the fraud.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Cal. App. 375 - Pierce v. Pierce