Dull v. Blackman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well understood, though not usually stated in express terms in works upon the subject, that no one is privy to a judgment -whose succession to the rights of property thereby affected occurred previously to the institution of the suit. A tenant in possession prior to the commencement of an action of ejectment cannot therefore be lawfully dispossessed by the judgment, unless made a party to the suit. The assignee of a note is not affected by any litigation in reference to it beginning after the assignment. No grantee can be bound by any judgment in an action commenced against his grantor subsequent to the grant; otherwise a man having no interest in property could defeat the estate of the true owner.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doctor Jack Pot Mining Co. v. Marsh · Blackwell v. McCall

2. ““Upon these facts we remark that as the land, the subject matter of this controversy, was situate in Iowa, litigation in respect to its title belonged properly to the courts within that state, Ellenwood v. Marietta Chair Co., 158 U. S. 105, 107 , although, if all the parties interested in the land were brought personally before a court of another state, its decree would be conclusive upon them and thus, in effect, determine the title.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deck v. Whitman · Fall v. Fall

3. ““The real opiate was situated in Tennessee, and governed by the law of its situs, and while, by means of its power over the person of a party, a court of equity may, in a proper ease, compel him to act in relation to property not within its jurisdiction, its decreo does not operate directly upon the property, nor affect, the title, but is made effectual through the coercion of the defendant, as, for instance, by directing a deed to be executed or canceled by or on behalf of ilie party.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deck v. Whitman