Cable v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 3 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. “It was doubtless the intention of the contract of September 30th that the latter mortgage also [that to Waugh and Ellis,] as well as the former [that of Sisson] should be cancelled, so as to give T. B. Ellis a superior lien upon the property for the security of the payment of his paid-in interest, and for the carrying out of such intention, and being, impressed with the justice of the claim of T. B. Ellis that he should have such security, we have anxiously sought for some satisfactory ground, upon which we might rest the support of such a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cable v. Ellis

2. “The written contract of September 30th, 1858, was not signed by Waugh, and we cannot hold him as bound by that contract to discharge and release his mortgage, although we may strongly suspect there was a secret understanding to that effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cable v. Ellis