Viquesney v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the settled law of this court that such creditors cannot come into a court of equity to obtain a seizure of the property of their debtor, and its application to the satisfaction of their claims; and this notwithstanding a statute of the state may authorize such a proceeding in the courts of the state. The line of demarcation between equitable and legal remedies in the federal court cannot be obliterated by state legislation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Sloan Shipyards Corp.

2. ““In all cases where a court of equity interferes to aid. the enforcement of a remedy at law there must be, firsts an acknowledged debt, or one established by a judgment rendered; and, secondly, an interest of the creditor in the property, or a lien thereon created by contract, or by some distinct legal proceeding, and giving a right to have it appropriated to pay the debt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Craddock v. Fulton