Watson v. Bondurant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 5 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““He” (the mortgage creditor) “can proceed to enforce his mortgage directly against his-mortgage debtor without reference to the transferee of that debtor. But still the transferee is subrogated to his vendor’s rights, by virtue of the purchase, and has sufficient interest in the object of the contract of mortgage to sue to annul the sale if the forms of law have not been complied with by the mortgage creditor or his vendor in making the forced sale.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Holliday v. Logan

2. ““In such a case as the present the importance of actual seizure is obvious. The defendant was no party to the action brought on the mortgage. He knew nothing about it. Had his lot been seized by the sheriff, as it ought to have been, his attention would have been called to it. The seizure would have been notice. He could then have protected himself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 452 F. Supp. 1295 - Bonner v. B-W Utilities, Inc.