Lamborn v. County Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 6 district · 62 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where a party pays an illegal demand with a full knowledge of all the facts which render such demand illegal, without an immediate and urgent necessity therefor, or unless-to release his person or property from detention, or to prevent an immediate seizure of his person or property, such payment must be deemed to be voluntary, and cannot be recovered back. And the fact that the party at the time of making the payment files a written protest does not make the payment involuntary.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Little v. Bowers · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. City of Atchison

2. ““It is settled by many authorities that money paid by a person to prevent an illegal seizure of his person or property by an officer claiming authority to seize the same, or to liberate his person or property from illegal detention by such officer, may be recovered back, in an action for money had and received, on the ground that the payment was compulsory, or by duress or extortion.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baker v. ALLEN · Finnell v. Armoura

3. ““A voluntary payment made with the full, knowledge of all the facts and circumstances of the case, though made under a mistaken view of the law, cannot be revoked, and the money so paid cannot be recovered back.” Citing case.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kahn v. Herold · E. H. Taylor, Jr., & Sons, Inc. v. First Nat. Bank of Aurora