Goldner v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. System’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is important to note, however, that there are certain principles in this field upon which all courts agree. Moore points out that ‘All courts agree that production should be allowed where it is shown that the statements may contain information which is not otherwise available to the moving party, as where the witnesses cannot be found or refuse to give information/ It is the opinion of this court that the converse of that principle is also a sound rule of law. That is, production should not be allowed where the witnesses may be found, and where the witnesses offer the desired information. In any event, production should not be allowed before the moving party has shown a bona fide attempt to obtain the information by independent investigation.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Meadows v. Southern Ry. Co. · Szubinski v. Commercial Sash & Door Co.