Jenkins v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Even though the defendant offers no evidence on rebuttal to disclose that the plaintiff was not a bona iide holder of the note in due course, but where defendant has denied said fact, and the evidence introduced on the part of the plaintiff to prove such fact was of such nature that men of ordinary intelligence might draw different conclusions therefrom* it is not error for the court to refuse to instruct a verdict for the plaintiff. “Record examined, and held, the court did not er,r in refusing to direct a verdict for the plaintiff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Messman v. Wilt

2. ““The judgment of the court in finding that the plaintiff was not an innocent purchaser is affirmed, and the cause remanded, with directions, to the trial court to proceed and settle the equities between the parties nob inconsistent with the views herein expressed, with costs of this appeal taxed toi the plaintiff in error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Helms v. Jenkins