Doe v. Winn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We may therefore assume as the settled doctrine of this court that if a patent is absolutely void upon its face, or the issuing thereof was without authority, or was prohibited by statute, or if the state had no title, it could be impeached collaterally in a court of law in an action of ejectment; but, in general, other objections and defects complained of must be put in issue in a regular course of pleading in a direct proceeding to avoid the patent.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garrard v. Silver Peak Mines · Lockhard v. Asher Lumber Co.

2. ““But tliore aro some things so essential to the validity of the contract that the great principles of justice and of law would he violated, did there not exist some tribunal to which an injured party might appeal, and in which the means by which an elder title was acquired might he examined. * * * But tuero are cases in which a grant is absolutely void, as where the state has no title to the thing granted, or where an ofiicer lmd no authority to issue the grant. In such cases the validity of the grant is necessarily examinable at law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garrard v. Silver Peak Mines