Edson v. Dillaye’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Under these denials no new matter would be admissible in evidence. The plaintiff would have nothing to prove upon the trial, except it might be a computation of the interest upon the note; for the making of the note is admitted by the answer. He would only have to open his case to the jury and demand their verdict; and there is nothing that the defendants could give in evidence under their answer. They could not prove payment, because they have not set it up in their answer; and so, of any other imaginable defense. Having admitted the making of the note, and not having set up any fact showing why they ought not to pay it, their liability to pay it is a legal conclusion, from which the defendants cannot escape, as they have not prepared the way by their answer for giving any defense in evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Columbia National Bank v. Western Iron & Steel Co.