Gilmore v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That case is clearly distinguishable from the case at bar. ... In the case before us, the mortgagor did not undertake to act, nor to authorize any one to act, as agent for the person named as mortgagee. The plaintiff, acting for himself, advanced the money and took the notes and mortgage as security for the repayment of the same. The mortgagor made the notes payable to Mrs. Bradeen ‘or bearer,’ and then delivered-them to the plaintiff, who thereby became the ‘bearer’ of the notes, as he was in fact the owner of the notes. The mortgage was a mere incident to the notes, and the transfer of the latter to the plaintiff necessarily-carried with them the mortgage. . . . This court has recently held that ‘the fact that securities were taken by one person in the name of another, who had no interest in them, does not invalidate the securities, or prevent the person beneficially interested from enforcing payment of them by action.’ ” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 Wash. 2d 632 - Anderson Buick Co. v. Cook