Grant v. Dalliber’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions

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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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is not changed or abandoned, by a constrained removal, as by imprisonment.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Jones, Judge · Nieves v. Connolly, No. Cv 89 0100458 (Nov. 23, 1993)

2. “The ground assumed, by the defendant ... must result in the conclusion, that civil process against prisoners confined in the state's prison, must always be served upon them personally, within the walls of the prison. If this be so, every officer or indifferent person serving process, must, at all times, have right and authority to enter the prison, and have intercourse with convicts. Such a power would be found inconsistent with the safe-keeping of prisoners, as well as subversive of the necessary and salutary discipline of the prison; and such a power cannot be exercised.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Havens v. Havens

3. “Before his imprisonment, his usual place *Page 434 of abode was in Torrington, in the same dwelling house where the copy of the writ was left in service, where his family dwelt, and to which, as to his home, he returned, upon his enlargement from prison. He had never abandoned this, as his place of residence; he had left it, by constraint; he had acquired no new or other place of residence. The state's prison was not the place of his abode; it was the place of his punishment; and while there, he was absent from home.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Havens v. Havens