Wall v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It would shock the conscience of the court if this beneficiary in peaceable possession should be required to give up the land, and appellants be permitted to hold to the same, and also to avoid payment of the debt. We regard this question as settled by a concluding paragraph of the opinion of this court in Allen v. Alliance Trust Co., 84 Miss. 319 , 36 So. 285 , and by the same case, with a different party complainant, styled Haggard v. Wilczinski, 143 F. 22 , 74 C. C. A. 176 . We apprehend that no court would permit the grantors in a trust deed, under the circumstances set forth in this bill, to stand quietly by for eight years, with the beneficiary peaceably in possession, and wait until the note which the trust deed secured became barred by limitation, and then take the land free from the obligation of any of the debt, and with rents and profits. The only .protection in this situation which the beneficiary had was to file a bill stopping such a claim in a law court, with the full tender to do equity in every regard. Such appeal to a court of conscience furnishes the only defensive course which the beneficiary could pursue.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Watts v. Russell