Dyer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court instructed the jury that if the defendant, when he issued the writ and rendered judgment, was the owner of the note on which the suit was brought, and knowing himself to be such owner, instituted the suit and rendered the judgment, for the purpose of collecting his own debt, he wás liable in this action, for having caused the plaintiff to be arrested and committed to jail. The law thus laid down by the court is founded upon the clearest principles of the common law and of natural justice. It would be a reproach to the law to allow a man to be a judge in his own ease. It is said to be one of the great ends of the institution of civil society to prevent men from being judges in cases wherein they are concerned, and to remit the decision of adverse interests to those who can have no interest whatever in the determination of any such case.” (The Two Friends, 1 Rob. Adm. Rep., Am. ed., 237; Mayor of Hereford’s Case, 1 Salk. 396.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John F. Limerick & Co. v. Murlatt