Norfolk Co v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 9 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We have frequently held that, in the absence of express statutory direction, or of an equivalent implication by necessary construction, provisions, in restriction! of the right of the state to tax the property or to regulate the affairs of its corporations, do not pass to new corporations succeeding, by consolidation or by purchase under foreclosure, to the property and ordinary franchises of the first grantee; that a mortgage of the franchises and property of a corporation, made in the exercise of a power given by statute, confers no right upon purchasers at a foreclosure sale to exist as the same corporation, but to reorganize as a new corporation subject to the laws existing at the time of the reorganization. This we have stated to be a salutary rule of interpretation, founded upon an obvious public policy, which regards such exemptions as in derogation of the sovereign authority and of common right, and therefore not to be extended beyond the exact and express requirements of the grant construed strictissimi juris. Morgan v. Louisiana, 93 U. S. 217 [ 23 L. Ed. 860 ]; Wilson v. Gaines, 103 U. S. 417 [ 26 L. Ed. 401 ]; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway v. Miller, 114 U. S. 176 [ 5 Sup. Ct. 813 , 29 L. Ed. 121 ].””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matthews v. Board of Corp. Com'rs · Alaska Northern Ry. Co. v. Municipality of Seward