The Maurice’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 1 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The general rule is that the costs follow the decree, but circumstances of equity, or hardship, or oppression, or of negligence, induced the court to depart from that rule in a great variety of cases. Where a libel is filed, and the respondent is compelled to defend, he is entitled to avail himself of every defense the law allows him, and whatever costs may be incurred in his attempt to exonerate himself from damage, when he is successful, and the circumstances of the case show that he is entirely faultless, are chargeable to the party putting him to that expense; and it seems to the court entirely legitimate to include all costs, whether it be for the purpose of establishing his own faultlessness, or in showing that a third party, brought in under rule 59, was to blame for the damage to the libelant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Starke