McBane v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““Is George Wilson, the sheriff’s vendee, in any better position? What rights has he superior to those of the judgment creditor upon whoso execution he bought, and the defendant in the writ whoso title he acquired? The title which Metzger had when the lien of Baum’s judgment attached was at the best a condition alone liable to be swept away unless the recording acts were complied with.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Merine