Williamson v. Majors’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““We find nothing in Bibb v. Allen, 149 U. S. 481 , 13 Sup. Ct. 950 , 37 L. Ed. 819 , or in Board of Trade of the City of Chicago v. Christie Grain & Stock Co., 198 U. S. 236 . 25 Sup. Ct. 637 , 49 L. Ed. 1031 , cited by appellee, nor in any other Supreme Court decision brought to our attention, in conflict with or even modifying Embrey v. Jemison, supra, and that case must influence the decision of the main issues in this case; but in view of the pleadings, and considering that the transactions complained of were in Tennessee, that the present case is now pending in the Circuit Court of the United States in Mississippi, and relief is asked under the laws of the last-named state, it is proper, if not necessary, to further consider the questions involved under Tennessee and Mississippi laws.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Haven v. James

2. “•‘There was much evidence bearing on the question 'as to whether the Memphis establishment-, managed by Bettis Majors, was or not a bucket shop, and on the allegation that each and every order of 'Williamson to lmy or sell cotton futures was executed on the exchange and strictly according to rule, add as to the imxieccability of the rules of the New Orleans Cotton iixchange in ■the-matter of actual delivery of all products sold therein and thereon — as to all of which, and under our view of the other issues, no finding need be given here.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Haven v. James

3. ““The evidence shows that nearly all of Williamson’s purchases and sales were made through and on the Cotton Exchange of New Orleans and New York and in accordance .with the rules of said Exchange, under which actual delivery is said to be contemplated and may, by a member of the Exchange, be exacted (but whether by an outsider is not clear); but, as a matter of fact, under said rules, delivery is rare, the general practice being to take profits or pay losses as the prices vary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lawton v. Carpenter