Cordova v. Hood’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate · 9 district · 51 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “" * * * The deed from Shields to Hood informed them that the consideration was unpaid. It imposed upon them the duty of inquiring whether it remained unpaid when they were about to make their purchase, Wherever inquiry is a duty, the party bound to1 make it is affected with knowledge of all which he would have discovered had he performed the duty. Means of knowledge with the duty of using them are, in equity, equivalent to knowledge itself. Had inquiry been made of the vendor, it would easily have been ascertained that a portion of the purchase-money remained unpaid. Inquiry of Hood, the debtor, if any sueh inquiry was made, was an idle ceremony. The deed pointed to the person from whom purchasers from Hood were to seek information.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jonathan Mills Manuf'g Co. v. Whitehurst · Marine Nat. Exchange Bank of Milwaukee v. Kalt-Zimmers Mfg. Co.

2. ““It is a general principle that a vendor of land, though he has made an absolute conveyance by deed, and though the, consideration is in the instrument expressed to be paid, has an equitable lien for the unpaid purchase money, unless there has been an express or an implied waiver of it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brisco v. Minah Consol. Min. Co.

3. “Waiver is a thing of intention as well as of action”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Southwest Airlines Co.