McVay v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is Therefore, Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed: “1. That plaintiff’s bill as amended, be and it is hereby dismissed in so far as Charles H. Swift and the lands therein described are concerned; “2. That the clerk of Court and ex-officio recorder of the Parish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana, be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cancel and erase from the mortgage records of his office, the judicial mortgage resulting from the registry of the final decree pro confesso herein rendered and signed on May 29th, 1936, in so far as the same affects defendant Charles H. Swift and the property, described in said decree are concerned; and “3. That all costs be taxed against plaintiff except such as were incurred up to July 20, 1936, when said final decree pro confesso was set aside and held for naught in so far as it affected said Charles H. Swift, and as to those that were necessarily incurred by reason of the fact that said Charles H. Swift was a party defendant shall be taxed against him; to all of which the plaintiff excepts and his exception is allowed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McVay v. Swift

2. ““ * * * an option may not be enforced until it has become a contract by an election to exercise it made in the way and manner the law prescribes.” (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 247 So. 2d 595 - Port Arthur Towing Co. v. Leveque