Scott v. Munn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Executors, administrators, and temporary administrators may commence and prosecute any personal action whatever, at law or in equity, which the testator or intestate might have commenced and prosecuted. And they shall also be liable to be sued in any court in any personal action which might have been maintained against the deceased.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Patterson v. Warren · 608 So. 2d 1149 - Flight Line, Inc. v. Tanksley

2. “The line of demarcation at common law separating these causes of action which survive from those which do not is that in the first the wrong complained of affects primarily and principally property and property rights, and the injuries to the person are merely incidental, while in the latter the injury complained of is to the person, and the property and rights of property affected are merely incidental.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 608 So. 2d 1149 - Flight Line, Inc. v. Tanksley

3. “When either of the parties to any personal action shall die before final judgment, the executor or administrator of such deceased party may prosecute or defend such action, and the court shall render judgment for or against the administrator.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 608 So. 2d 1149 - Flight Line, Inc. v. Tanksley