Evans v. Faxon’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““We are of opinion iliat congress, in determining tlie jurisdiction of the circuit court over controversies between citizens of the different states, has not distinctly provided for the removal from a state court of a suit in which there is a controversy not wholly between citizens of different states, and to the full or final determination of which one of the indispensable parties, plaintiffs or defendants, on the side seeking the removal, is a citizen of the same state with one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants against whom the removal is asked.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. Tillotson