Hilton v. Dickinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 federal appellate · 28 district · 22 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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is undoubtedly true that until it is in some way shown by the record that the sum demanded is not the matter in dispute, the sum will govern in all questions of jurisdiction, but it is equally true that when it is shown that the sum demanded is not the real matter in dispute, the sum shown, and not the sum demanded, will prevail.””

   12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Barry v. Edmunds

2. “of a writ of error or appeal by a defendant when the recovery against him is as much in amount or value as is required to bring a case here, and when, having pleaded a set-off or counter-claim for enough to give us jurisdiction, he is defeated upon his plea altogether, or recovers only’an amount or value which, being deducted from his claim, as pleaded, leaves enough to give us jurisdiction, which has not been hilo wed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Block v. Darling

3. ““It is the actual matter in dispute as shown by the record, and not the ad damnum, alone, which must he looked to.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Porter v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.