Denison v. League’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““He makes no pretense of charging damages for the value of these lands, only in the event which is to be set up by a supplemental petition, and, if the facts are true, there would be no more obstacle in his procuring a decree, on this part of his petition in rem for the specific lands sued for, than there would have been in sustaining a claim for damages. And to permit him, after so framing his petition, 'to claim damages, contrary to the specific relief prayed, under his general prayer for relief, would operate as a surprise to the other party; as no one would believe, from the structure of this part of the petition, that damages would be the object sought. And damages would not be consistent with the facts stated in the petition for a specific conveyance. Belief is sometimes allowed different from the relief prayed under the general prayer for relief; but the relief granted in such eases must be consistent with the objects of the petition.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Patton · West Lumber Co. v. Henderson