West v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““It is the settled doctrine that, so far as concerns courts of the first instance, the declaration or pleadings of the plaintiff, presenting his claim, is the sole test by which the jurisdiction is to be decided, so far as the matter in dispute is concerned. The jurisdiction, when dependent upon the amount in dispute in case of appeal or writ of error, is determined by a different standard. There the test is the amount in dispute at the time the appeal is taken. Where the declaration shows the requisite amount is demanded, this court has jurisdiction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Gordon

2. ““The words ‘matter in dispute’ do not refer to disputes in the country, or the intentions or expectations of the parties concerning them, but to the ■claims presented on the record to the legal consideration of the court. What the plaintiff thus claims is the ‘ matter in dispute,’ though the claim may be incapable of proof, or only in part well founded.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Gordon