Rogers v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 34 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This reduces the question to the proposition that Rogers was required to go beyond the record and ascertain whether Brown had transferred the note before the suit of foreclosure was instituted. This is practically the contention of the appellee in this case, supported by the opinion of the majority of the Court of Civil Appeals. In the case of Moran v. Wheeler, 87 Tex. 179 , very much the same question was presented, and this court held in effect that the subsequent mortgagee, who virtually occupied the same position that Rogers does, had the right to rely upon the record, and was not required to inquire into the existence of a transfer not known to him by which the lien upon the land had been passed to another who had neglected to care for his own rights by placing his transfer upon the records. Reel v. Wilson, 64 Iowa, 13 ; Leonard v. Bay Co., 28 N. J. Eq. 192; Woods v. Love, 27 Mich. 308 ; Aldrich v. Stephens, 49 Cal. 676 ; Kipp v. Brandt, 49 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 358.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Masterson v. Ginners Mut. Underwriters' Ass'n