Feibelman v. Packard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Moses Feibelman and George Woelker, as partner, sued the defendants in error to recover damages for the seizure of their partnership goods by Packard,, marshal of the United States for the district of Louisiana. A judgment was rendered against them. Their interests in the suit was joint, and the judgment affects them jointly and not separately. Feibelman alone has brought this writ of error, and there has been no summons and severance or other equivalent proceeding. It follows that the writ must be dismissed on the authority of Williams v. Bank of the United States, 11 Wheat. 414 , 6 L. Ed. 508 ; Masterson v. Herndon, 10 Wall. 416 , 19 L. Ed. 953 ; Simpson v. Greeley, 20 Wall. 152 , 22 L. Ed. 338 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Port v. Schloss Bros. & Co.

2. ““A writ of error sued out by one of two or more joint defendants, without a summons and severance, or equivalent proceeding, must be dismissed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stanley v. Greenberg