Bronson v. Schulten’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

182 federal appellate · 75 district · 114 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 537 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But it is a rule equally well established that after the term has ended all final judgments and decrees of the court pass beyond its control, unless steps be taken during that term, by motion or otherwise, to set aside, modify, or ‘correct them; * * * and this is placed upon the ground that the case has passed beyond the control of the court.””

   25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phillips v. Negley · Austin v. Riley

2. ““But it is a rule equally well established that, after the term has ended, all final judgments and decrees of the court pass beyond Its control, unless steps he taken during that term, by motion or otherwise, to set aside, modify, or correct them; and, if errors exist, they can only be corrected by such proceeding by a writ of error or appeal as may he allowed in a court which, by law, can review the decision. So strongly has this principle been upheld by this court, that, while realizing that there is no court which can review its decisions, it has invariably refused all applications for rehearing made after the adjournment of the court for the term at whch the judgment Was rendered. And this is placed upon the ground that the case has passed beyond the control of the court. Brooks v. Railroad Co., 102 U. S. 107 , 26 L. Ed. 91 ; Public Schools v. Walker, 9 Wall. 603 , 19 L. Ed. 650 ; Brown v. Aspden, 14 How. 25 , 14 L. Ed. 311 ; Cameron v. McRoberts, 3 Wheat. 591 , 4 L. Ed. 467 ; Sibbald v. U. S., 12 Pet. 488 , 9 L. Ed. 1167 ; U. S. v. The Glamorgan, 2 Curt. 236 , Fed. Cas. No. 15,214; Bradford v. Patterson, 1 A. K. Marsh. 464 ; Ballard v. Davis, 3 J. J. Marsh. 656 . * * * It is a profitless task to follow the research of counsel for the defendants in error through the numerous decisions of the state courts cited by them on this point in support of the action of the circuit court. The cases from the New York courts, which go furthest in that direction, are largely founded on”

   13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phillips v. Negley · Hume v. Bowie

3. ““In cases of prejudicial misconduct in the course of the trial, the misbehavior or partiality of jurors, and newly discovered evidence, as well as where it is sought to have the court in which the ease was tried reconsider its rulings, the remedy is by a motion for a new trial (Judicial Code, § 269 [28 USCA § 391]) — an application which is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and, in accordance with the established, principles which have been repeatedly set forth in the decisions of this court above cited, cannot be entertained, in the absence of a different statutory rule, after the expiration of the term at which the judgment was entered.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phillips v. Negley · United States v. Sixty-Five Cases of Glove Leather