Cook v. Tullis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

59 federal appellate · 14 district · 64 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “essential that the party ratifying should be able not merely to do the act ratified at the time the act was done, but also at the time the ratification was made.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pickering v. Lomax · National Foundry & Pipe Works, Ltd. v. Oconto Water Co.

2. “‘ There is nothing in the bankrupt act, either in its language or object, which prevents an insolvent from dealing with his property, selling or exchanging it for other property at any time before proceedings in bankruptcy are taken by or against him. provided such dealing be conducted without any purpose to defraud or delay his creditors or give preference to any one, «.ad does not impair the value of his estate. An insolvent is not bound, in the misfortune of his insolvency, to abandon all dealing with his property; his creditors can only complain if he waste his estate or give preference in its disposition to one over another. His dealing will stand if it leave his estate in as good plight and condition as previously.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stewart v. Platt · In re McLoon