King v. Cornell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 federal appellate · 16 district · 42 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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[E]ven where two acts are not in express terms repugnant, yet if the latter act covers the whole subject of the first, and embraces new provisions, plainly showing that it was intended as a substitute for the first act, it will operate as a repeal of that act.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fisk v. Henarie · Tineo v. Ashcroft

2. ““ That said suit is one in which there can be a final determination of the controversy, so far as it concerns your petitioner, without the presence of the said defendant Swope as a party in said cause, and that your petitioner desires to remove said suit as against your petitioner,' and so far as concerns him, into the Circuit Court, . '. . . in pursuance of the act of Congress in that behalf provided, to wit, the Revised Statutes of the United States, section 639, subdivision second.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Holland v. Chambers

3. “and (a) arises under the constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority, or (b) is between citizens of different states, or (c) is between citizens of a state and foreign states, citizens or subjects.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. George Weston, Ltd. v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.