Lockhart v. Leeds’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

73 federal appellate · 19 district · 28 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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is nothing in the intricacy of equity pleading that prevents the plaintiff from obtaining the relief under the general prayer, to which he may be entitled upon the facts plainly stated in the bill.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cooper v. United States · Abell v. Anderson

2. ““We agree that the relief granted under the prayer for general relief must be agreeable to the case made by the bill, and that, in substance, is what is held by the above cases. The case made by the bill consists of the material facts therein stated; and where all the facts are stated, it is no reason for denying relief under a general prayer because it may differ from the theory of the law upon which the special prayer for relief is based, where both prayers are based upon the same facts, clearly set forth in the bill.” 195 U. S. 437 , 25 Sup. Ct. 79 ( 49 L. Ed. 263 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lewis Pub. Co. v. Wyman

3. ““ ‘All pleadings must be construed reasonably, and not with such strictness as to refuse to adopt the natural construction of the pleading- because a particular fact might have been more distinctly alleged, although its existence is fairly, naturally, and reasonably to be presumed from the averments made in the pleading.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Janvrin v. Broe