Scott v. Neely’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

262 federal appellate · 88 district · 65 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 700 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[jury] right cannot ... be impaired by any blending with a claim, properly cognizable at law, of a demand for equitable relief in aid of the legal action or during its pendency'”

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cabinet Vision v. Cabnetware · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc.

2. ““In all cases where a court of equity interferes to aid the enforcement of a remedy at law, there must be an acknowledged debt, or one established by a judgment rendered, accompanied by a right to the appropriation of the property ol' the debtor for its payment, or, to speak with greater accuracy, there must be, in addition to such acknowledged or established debt, an interest in the property or a lion thereon created by contract or by some distinct legal proceeding.””

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Talley v. Curtain · Peacock, Hunt & West Co. v. Williams

3. ““It has been often adjudged that whenever, respecting any right violated, a court of law is competent to render a judgment affording a plain, adequate, and complete remedy, the party aggrieved must seek his remedy in such court, not only because the defendant has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, but because of the prohibition of the act of Congress to pursue his remedy in such cases in a court of equity.””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bearden v. Benner · Norton v. Colusa Parrot Mining & Smelting Co.