Wiggins v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * Under the greatest diversity of circumstances, and. the greatest variety of claims arising from unauthorized public acts, private tortious acts, invasion of property rights, violation of contract obligations, and notwithstanding the positive denials by some American courts, the weight of authority is simply overwhelming that the jurisdiction may and should be exercised, either on behalf of a numerous body of separate claimants against a single party, or in behalf of a single- party against such a numerous body, although there is no ‘common title’ nor ‘community of right’ or of ‘interest in the subject matter’, among these individiuals, but where there is and because there is merely a community of interest among them in the questions of law and fact involved in the general controversy, or in the kind and form of relief demanded and obtained by or against-each individual member of the numerous body.” (Emphasis ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davies v. Columbia Gas & Electric Corp.

2. ““Conceded, a tax wrongfully levied and collected of a community, in violation of the Constitution. The citizen has paid it promptly, it being-mingled with legal taxes, which should be paid promptly that government might be supported. The sum of such illegal tax is in the hands of the collector or the county court. The citizens who paid it, not the municipality nor the collector, are entitled to it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Griffy