Lea v. Deakin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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

1. ““The litigation which has grown out of the controversy in this case, and the suits which have been brought upon some of the bonds, have induced the district judge and myself to fully consider this question in the light of all the authorities which have been presented, and we have come to the conclusion that the sounder and better rule is for the court of chancery, where an injunction has been dissolved, to go on and assess the damages which the party against whom it is-, sued has sustained, and it will accordingly be considered hereafter that practice may be adopted in this court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Owl Creek Coal Co. v. Big Horn Collieries Co.

2. ““The court orders the injunction, prescribes the terms upon which it shall be issued, and may require a bond, stipulation, or undertaking as a condition upon which it shall be issued or not according to its own view of the circumstances of the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mica Insulator Co. v. Commercial Mica Co.