Archbold v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court is convinced that an actual controversy does exist here as to the authority of the defendants Sea-ton and Wirth to make park land available for the contemplated highway and as to the authority of the District Commissioners to convert such park land to highway use, that there are herein genuine issues of material fact, and that the court should not grant any of the motions to dismiss or for summary judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Archbold v. United States

2. “. . . the practice is to permit amendments freely to cure defective or imperfect pleadings, particularly to remedy objections raised on motions to dismiss.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nader v. Butz

3. “leave [to amend] shall be freely given when justice so requires.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nader v. Butz