Coller v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““The jury were also instructed, and we think correctly, that when partners were engaged in such a grocery business as this was, where they were doing a wholesale and retail business, they had the right to borrow money for the necessary purposes of the business ; but, if it was not borrowed for the necessary purposes of the firm, the plaintiff could not recover, if she knew it was not borrowed for such purposes; but she had a right to rely upon the implied power of Coller to borrow money, and if she loaned the money in good faith, and did so without knowledge or notice of such facts as would lead an ordinarily prudent person to suspect that the loan was for .her brother, she had the right to recover.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hobbs v. Virginia National Bank