Legge v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. ““It has been held that, where one creditor holds a claim against two joint debtors, and another creditor holds a claim against one of those two, equity will not, for the sake of the creditor who has the single claim, compel the other creditor to proceed against that one of his joint debtors against whom he has no claim; but that it may do so when it is equitable as between the two debtors that it should be done. ”... The law, as above quoted from Corpus Juris, finds support and approval in Story’s Equity Jurisprudence (14th Ed.) vol. 2, p. 246, § 867, and 18 R. C. L. 460, par. 9. 30”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bryan v. Clark