Townsend v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the plaintiff was a superintendent of defendant’s plantation, having been employed by him fot the current year, 1882, he would have a lien upon the crops grown or raised on such place during that particular year, in and about which he was employed, to the extent of his hire or wafees due for services rendered during the current year in the capacity of ap agricultural superintendent. Code, § 3482. And this lien, which is given by statute, will prevail against any purchaser of such crops, unless it be a purchaser for value without notice of such lien. Scaife v. Stovall, 67 Ala. 237 . Actual knowledge of the lien is unnecessary to charge such purchaser with notice. It is sufficient if he have knowledge of facts calculated to put him upon inquiry; and a knowledge by the purchaser of the relation between the landlord and superintendent, as employer and employé for the current year, and of the further fact that the cotton purchased was raised or grown upon the particular premises where the plaintiff was employed as such superintendent — a knowledge, we repeat, of these two facts, would be sufficient to charge the purchaser with constructive notice of the existence of plaintiff’s lien, as well as the extent of it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 17 Ala. App. 432 - Gray v. Burdette