Walker v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to pay as many debts of the judgment debtors and each of them as is possible....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sant v. Stephens · Sant v. Stephens

2. ““As Walker was obligated to pay, if he redeemed, the entire amount for which the land had been sold, together with interest, and as there is no provision in our statute for a redemption at all except by payment of the entire sum, and not a moiety of that sum, for which the land was sold at the sale redeemed from, it follows necessarily that he may redeem, if at all, in whole only. To the same effect is Martin v. Sprague, 29 Minn. 53 , 11 N.W. 143 ; O’Brien v. Krenz, 36 Minn. 136 , 30 N.W. 458 ; Sharpe v. Baker, 51 Ind. App. 547, 571 , 96 N.E. 627 , 99 N.E. 44 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First National Bank v. Energy Fuels Corp.

3. “[t]he right to redeem is purely statutory and is not to be enlarged by judicial interpretation, yet a liberal construction is to be given the statute allowing redemption, to the end that all the property of a debtor may pay as many debts as possible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sant v. Stephens