Danciger v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A further contention made by the defendants is that the court of exclusive original jurisdiction in this controversy is the Interstate Commerce Commission, and that this court has no jurisdiction in the first instance to afford to complainants the relief here sought, and much reliance is placed by the defendants on the case of Texas & Pac. Ry. v. Abilene Cotton Oil Co., 204 U. S. 426 , 27 Sup. Ct. 350 , 51 L. Ed. 553 [9 Ann. Cas. 1075]. Prom a reading of that case I do not consider it applicable to the state of facts here presented. If the controversy here was as to whether the defendants were charging excessive or unreasonable rates for the shipments tendered by complainants, the case relied upon would to my mind be in point; but as the ground of relief sought by complainants in the case at bar is the performance by defendants of a duty imposed upon them by law, which they wholly neglect and refuse to perform, I think such question is one for the determination of the courts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hines v. Henaghan