Ex Parte Britton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 46 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The rule is established that a court having jurisdiction of the parties and the res of the litigation has undoubtedly authority to order the surrender of property held by the defendant or any other person who is a party to the suit."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Yates · Ex Parte Preston

2. ““ ‘[Jurisdiction of the person and of the subject matter are not conclusive; but the jurisdiction of the court to render the particular judgment in question is a proper subject of inquiry. If any of these three elements are lacking, the judgment is fatally defective, and the prisoner held under it may be released on habeas corpus.’ [citations omitted.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Salfen

3. ““(1) Jurisdiction of the subject-matter; (2) jurisdiction of the person; and (3) authority of the court to render the particular judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Salfen