Maxwell v. McDaniels’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The complainant had no right for two reasons to ash that the court should enjoin the prosecution of suits against his debtor in the state courts of West Virginia. If A. is indebted to * * * B. and C., it takes no citation of authority to show that B. cannot ask a court of equity to enjoin O. from suing A., merely because 0. by beginning his suit first may get a lien upon A.’s property before B. does. In the second place, if the complainant had any standing in a court of equity to ask that proceedings at law be enjoined, the statutes of the United States expressly prohibit a. federal court of equity from granting that relief when the proceedings sought to be enjoined are pending in a state court. * * * A court of equity of the United States has no jurisdiction, at the instance of a simple contract creditor whose claim has not been reduced to judgment, to appoint a receiver for property upon which he asserts no specific lien.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Hayden