Northern Securities Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 6 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In support of this motion certain letters were presented showing that request was made of counsel for the respective parties for their consent to the application, and that they withheld direct consent, leaving the matter entirely to the court to determine. When the motion was submitted, objection to the granting of leave was made by counsel for appellees. “Where, in a pending case, application to file briefs is made by counsel not employed therein, but interested in some other pending case involving similar questions, and consent is given, [italics ours] the court has always exercised great liberality in permitting this to be done. And doubtless it is within our discretion to allow it in any case when justified by the circumstances. Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat. [1] 17, 5 L.Ed. [547] 551; State of Florida v. Georgia, 17 How. [478] 491, 15 L.Ed. [181] 188; The Gray Jacket, 5 Wall. 370 , 18 L. Ed. 646 . It does not appear that applicant is interested in any other case which will be affected by the decision of this case; as the parties are represented by competent counsel, the need of assistance cannot be assumed and consent has not been given.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Winkler-Koch Engineering Co. · Irving Paper Ltd. v. United States