Ex parte Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““......The municipal legislation of the Hawaiian Islands ......not inconsistent with this Resolution, nor contrary to the Constitution of the United States........shall remain in force until the Congress of the United S-tatesi shall otherwise determine.” (Vol. 30, U. S. Stats., J50.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In re Mankichi

2. ““In our opinion the Seventh Amendment secured unanimity in finding a verdict, as an essential feature of trial by jury in ■common law cases, and the Act of Congress could not impart the power to change the constitutional rule and could not be treated as attempting to do so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In re Mankichi

3. ““No jury, for the trial of -any case, civil or criminal, shall be-less than twelve in number, but when nine of such jury shall-agree upon a verdict, they may render the same and such verdict shall be as valid and binding upon the parties -as if rendered by-all twelve.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In re Mankichi