Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[W]hen any law is passed, in any state, in pursuance of constitutional authority, it is a law of the whole state, acting in its legislative capacity; as are, also, executive and judiciary acts, constitutionally authorized, acts of the whole state, in its executive or judiciary capacity, and not the personal acts alone of the individuals composing those branches of government." 3 U.S. 53, at 93 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE COUN., OLDER AMER. v. Weinberger · California Legislative Council for Older Americans v. Weinberger

2. “... admitting the death of Doane, and that it can be taken notice of in this court, it is unavailing, because the proceedings in a court of admiralty are in rem. The sentence of a court of admiralty, or of appeal in questions of prize, binds all the world, as to everything contained in it, because all the world are parties to it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Heintz v. Hudkins

3. “[M]otives of commiseration, from whatever source they flow, must not mingle in the administration of justice. Judges, in the exercise of their functions, have frequent occasions to exclaim, `durum valde durum, sed sic lex est.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kuhnle ex rel. Dresch v. Prudential Securities, Inc.