Jacobus v. . Colgate’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 2 district · 139 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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To supply a remedy where previously there was none of any kind, is to create a right of action. We need not dwell upon the question whether before this amendment of the Code, a trespass on foreign lands was recognized by our law for any purpose as constituting a wrong (Dicey Conflict of Laws [2d ed.], pp. 31, 32). If we recognized it as a wrong, we gave no redress for it. If the injured owner had suffered an impairment of his right, he had none the less no right of action. He may have had one under the laws of some other State or country. He had none -under our laws. His cause of action till then was local, and limited by the boundaries of the State where the wrong was done.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morrison v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

2. ““An action may Jbe maintained in the courts of this state to recover damages for injuries to real estate situate without the state, or for breach of contracts or of covenants relating thereto, whenever such an action could be maintained in relation to personal property without the state. The action must be tried in the county in which the parties or some one thereof resides, or if no party resides within the state, in any county.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mexican Gulf Oil Co. v. Compania Transcontinental De Petroleo, S.A.

3. “until the state has supplied him (the suitor) with a tribunal in which his suit may be maintained”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon