Stephens, Ex Parte’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““Is it conceivable that the Legislature intended that, before any debt was adjudicated, the fund should be drawn out of the treasury and placed in the hands of a receiver to pay such debt, or that it should be taken out for distribution among the shareholders before their rights were established by the court? Why take them from the hands of the custodian, where they are as secure as security can reasonably be made, and place them in the hands of a receiver of the court, though securely bonded as he is presumed to be, until that period has arrived in the course of the suit when the rights of the parties have been fixed by a final adjudication. The policy of the act, as shown by its express terms, is to provide a fund securely deposited for the payment of the debts and for distribution among the shareholders in the case any one or more of the companies therein named may fail in business; and we think that the purpose was that the fund should so remain until a final adjudication of the rights of all persons interested in it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crowell v. Terrell