Boro v. Hidell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A distinction is to be taken between a suit by attachment and one of the kind we have now before the court, or one such as was the subject of the opinion in Taylor v. McGill, because, in attachment cases, complete relief cannot be given, inasmuch as, if any balance be due upon the debt after the exhaustion of the property attached, there can be no personal judgment rendered therefor, while in the kind of case we now have before us there is no necessity for personal judgment. However, the case of Carlin v. Wallace [81 Tenn. (13 Lea), 571], was, in effect, overruled in an oral opinion delivered in a recent case at Knoxville. Templeton v. British Association. "In the kind of case we now have before us, complete relief could be given without personal service of process. It is a real action brought in the county where the land lies, and the parties interested may be made parties to the suit by publication. Ray v. Haag, 1 Tenn. Ch. App., 249 . "It has been the constant practice in this state to proceed in real actions in the manner stated, when no personal service could be had upon the persons against whom the relief was sought. To hold differently now would probably shake many titles. The doctrine of Taylor v. McGill has become a rule of property.”

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