Prentice v. Stearns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “-•“An argument is also addressed to us by counsel for the plaintiff in error in support of the proposition that, if the deed under which he claims title were not effectual to convey the patented land, by reason of a mistaken description, equity would relieve the plaintiff by reforming the deed. But plainly no such question can arise on this record. The proceeding is not in equity to reform the deed, but is at law to recover possession by virtue of an alleged legal title under it. We,are dealing with the legal title alone in this action; any equities supposed to control it are not the subject of present consideration, and must be excluded altogether from the discussion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McManus v. Chollar

2. ““Being the land set off to the Indian Chief Buffalo at the Indian treaty of September 30, A. D. 1854, and liras afterwards disposed of by said Buffalo to said Armstrong, and is now recorded with the government documents.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prentice v. Northern Pac. R.

3. ““In a suit at law to recover possession of real estate, .the court cannot take note of facts, which, in equity, might afford grounds for relieving the plaintiff, by reformiug the description in his deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McClure v. Glady Fork Lumber Co.