Deputron v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘In Barry v. Edmunds. 116 U. S. 550 , 6 Sup. Ct. 501 , 29 L. Ed. 729 , it was held that a suit cannot properly be dismissed by a Circuit Court of the United Stales, as not involving a controversy within the jurisdiction of the court, unless the facts when made to appear on the record create a legal certainly of that conclusion. ‘Nothing less than this,’ said Mr. Justice Matthews, ‘is meant by tin* statute when it provides that the failure of its jurisdiction, on Bus account, shall appear to the satisfaction of said Circuit Court.’””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hill v. Walker · Donovan v. Wells, Fargo & Co.

2. “Where the rightful owner of real estate is in the actual occupancy of a part of his tract, he is in the constructive and legal possession and seisin of the whole, unless he is disseised by actual occupation and dispossession; and where the possession is mixed, the legal seisin is according to the legal title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carter v. Becton

3. “Clearly, where the .jurisdictional allegation is not traversed, no question involving the capacity of the parties in the cause to litigate in the circuit court can be raised before the jury (Railroad Co. v. Quigley, 21 How. 202 ), or treated as within the issues they might be impaneled to determine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gubbins v. Laughtenschlager