Watkins v. Donnell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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. ““Appellant was not a party to the proceeding, but sought to intervene therein, i. e., to become, by leave- of court, a party thereto for the protection of a right or interest alleged to be affected thereby. The general rule is that one coming in as an intervener must take the case as he finds it, and cannot delay the trial of the cause; and that intervention comes too late after trial begins, and a fortiori after judgment. [See 17 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2 Ed.), 185; 11 Enc. PI. & Pr. 510, 503.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 Ind. App. 596 - Abeele v. Ruse