Corbell v. Childers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 4 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The motion to dismiss this action in. the court below was without merit, and was properly overruled. The plaintiff claimed in his complaint that the value of the property in controversy was'$365; the defendant, that it was of the value of SI,0(50. In this class of cases the county court has jurisdiction where the claim or subject of controversy does not exceed the value of ¡¡>r>Q0. Hill’s Arm. Code Or. § 894 [8(581. Of course, by simply alleging in the answer that the value was greater than 8500, the jurisdiction of the court could not be ousted. The plaintiff’s action on the face of the complaint appeared to be within the jurisdiction of the court. If jurisdiction existed in fact, no difference what the answer contained, the plaintiff had' a right to a trial, and In such case the question of jurisdiction could not be summarily determined on motion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bennett v. Forrest