Planters' Bank v. Union Bank’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 federal appellate · 7 district · 63 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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But when the illegal transaction has been consummated, when no comí has been called upon to give aid to it, when the proceeds of the sale have been actually received, and received in that which the law recognizes as having had value, and when they have been carried to the credit of the plaintiffs, the case is different. The court is there not asked to enforce an illegal contract The plaintiffs do not require the aid of any illegal transaction to establish their case. It is enough that the defendants have in hand a thing of value that belongs to them.””

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cook v. Sherman · Allen v. Forbis

2. “a promise to pay in Confederate notes, in consideration of the receipt of such notes and of drafts payable by them, cannot be considered a nudum factum or an illegal contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baldy v. Hunter