Ex parte Elyton Land Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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44 state decisions

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

1. ““Taken in a strict, technical sense, the final decree of a court of chancery is the sentence of tlio court, finally and conclusively determining all the matters in controversy, disposing entirely of the cause, leaving nothing further for the court to do. Such is not tlio moaning of the term ‘final decree,’ as it is employed in the statute [of appeals]. The test of the finality of a decree to sup-port an appeal is not whether the cause remains in fieri, in some respects, in the court of chancery, awaiting further proceedings, necessary to entitle the parties to the full measure of the rights it has been declared they have, -but whether the decree which has been rendered ascertains and declares these rights. If these are ascertained and .adjudged, the decree is final and will support an appeal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sawyer v. Edwards

2. ““ * * * Taken in a strict, technical sense, the final decree of a court of chancery is the sentence of the court, finally and conclusively determining all the matters in controversy, disposing entirely of the cause, leaving nothing further for the court to do. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sexton v. Sexton

3. “These facts constitute the equity of the case; they embrace the substantial merits of the controversy; from them arise the material issues of fact and of law, upon which the legal and equitable rights of the parties depend.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. James v. Alabama Coalition for Equity, Inc.