Thomas v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The remedy of setting aside a trustee's sale is appropriate only in cases which reach unjust extremes.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2011 UT App 290 - RM LIFESTYLES, LLC v. Ellison · 2015 UT App 80 - Pierucci v. U.S. Bank, NA

2. “[W]e believe that a credit bid by the beneficiary of a trust deed is a bid “payable in lawful money of the United States,” even though the trustee does not go through the meaningless motions of taking, with one hand, actual money from a person as the highest bidder at the trust sale and then returning the money with the other hand to the same person as the trust deed beneficiary. Thomas v. Johnson, 801 P.2d at 188, n. 1 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 434 F. Supp. 2d 1116 - Green v. United States

3. “the amount by which the amount of the indebtedness with interest, costs, and expenses of sale, including trustee's and attorney's fees, exceeds the fair market value of the property as of the date of the sale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 102 - Security National Life Insurance Co. v. Brunson