Harth v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 11 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We see no. reason to differentiate this case from the multitude of other cases where persons have signed their names to blank notes or other negotiable paper, and left it in the hands of those who have made an unconscionable use of it. The fact that the instrument in this case was a deed instead of a negotiable instrument is a distinction without a logical difference. Neither, in the view of the writer of this opinion, is the intent with which the conveyance was left with Irwin of importance here. When a man leaves with a stranger an instrument executed and acknowledged with every legal formality necessary to indicate that he has made a conveyance of the property, but with the name of the grantee left blank, he ought, in common prudence, to contemplate the possibility that the depositee, if dishonest, might make an improper use of such instrument, and if such use is made of it he, and not the person whom he has put it in the power of his agent to defraud, ought to suffer the loss.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holt v. Guaranty & Loan Co. · Holt v. Guaranty Loan Co.

2. ““A deed executed, but with the name of the grantee left blank, conveys no. title while in that condition.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pearson v. Mullins