Bumgardner v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There is, however, no limitation by statute upon the right of a creditor to institute a suit to attack a deed as fraudulent in fact. Of course, the right to institute such a suit can be lost in equity by remissness and delay in its assertion. It is true that delay in the assertion of a right is always discountenanced in a court of chancery, that it does not encourage stale claims, and that a party may lose his right to complain of a fraud by delay, especially where the delay is accompanied by the loss of evidence or the death of parties, or such conditions exist as to render the court unable to pass upon the questions involved without serious risk of doing injustice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kotob v. Hild