Bacon v. Kimmel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““had the effect as between them to rest the right of property and the possession in the plaintiif, and that as between 1hem it related, back, so as to perfect the plaintiff’s title from the time of the trespass for which that judgment was obtained. Still it could not affect the defendants in this suit, so as to make them trespassers as against the plaintiff. * * * There is no evidence in the case tending to show that at any lime during the period covered by the declaration the plaintiff had any right whatever to the property or its possession, nor tending to show that in obtaining possession the defendants were guilty of a trespass against any one, much less against the plaintiff. And, whatever effect the recovery and satisfaction of Wheeler’s judgment against the plaintiff should have had as between them by relation back, it cannot by such relation make tlie defendants trespassers for acts which did not constitute a trespass as against the plaintiff at the time it was committed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Third Nat. Bank of St. Louis v. Rice