Button v. Trader’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Donally, when be found the property passed by Strub as bis own to tbe defendants, if bis claim as testified to by him was correct, bad two courses open to him to pursue. He could have taken measures to recover bis property of the defendants, or be could have affirmed the sale of Strub to them, and looked to Strub for the value of bis property. He chose tbe latter course. He elected to pursue bis remedy against Strub, and now has a judgment against him, not only for tbe full amount of bis interest in the property, but for all that Strub then owed him on any account. Having thus elected to confirm tbe sale of tbe property by Strub to tbe defendants, and having recovered a judgment for tbe value of bib interest in tbe same against Strub, which is now in force, the property was thereby secured in the defendants, and tbe consideration for tbe note became a good one. Having elected to place bis remedy against Strub, he cannot now turn round, repudiate such election, and maintain a claim to tbe property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Sutton