Gay v. Parpart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It was another principle of the chancery jurisdiction in partition, that a decree itself did not transfer or convey title even after the allotment of the respective shares of each of the parties to. the proceeding, but that the legal title remained as it was before. In this respect, a decree in chancery was unlike the writ of partition at the common law, which in such cases operated on the title only by way of estoppel. In the chancery proceeding, however, this difficulty was remedied by a decree that the parties, should make the necessary conveyances to each other, which, if they refused, they could be compelled to do by attachment, imprisonment and other powers of the court over them in person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Taylor v. Johnston

2. ““That system does not deal with or decide questions of controverted title. Its purpose is to make division among the parties, before the court, of real estate in which they had interests or estates that were not in controversy as among themselves.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heinze v. Butte & Boston Consolidated Min. Co.