The Thielbek’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions

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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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the exercise of this admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, the courts of the United States are exclusively governed by the legislation of Congress, and, in the absence thereof, by the general principles of the maritime law. The states have no rights to prescribe the rules by which the courts of the United States shall act, nor the jurisprudence which they shall administer. If any other doctrine were established, it would amount to a complete surrender of the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States to the fluctuating policy and legislation of the states. If the latter have any right to prescribe any rule, they have a right to prescribe all rules — to limit, control, or bar suits in the national courts. Such a doctrine has never been supported, nor has it for a moment been supposed to exist, at least as far as I have any knowledge, either by any state court or national court within the whole Union. For myself, I can only say that, during the whole of my judicial life, I have never, up to the present hour, heard a single doubt breathed upon the subject.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rohde v. Grant Smith Porter Co.