Sharon v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Citizenship’ and ‘residence,’ as has often been declared by the courts, are not convertible terms. Parker v. Overman, 38 How. 141 [ 15 L. Ed. 318 ]; Robertson v. Cease, 97 U. S. 648 [ 24 L. Ed. 1057 ]; Grace v. American Cent. Ins. Co., 109 U. S. 283 [ 3 Sup. Ct. 207 , 27 L. Ed. 932 ]; Prentiss v. Barton, 1 Brock. 389 [Fed. Cas. No. 11,384], (Numerous other cases might be cited upon this point.) Citizenship is a status or condition, and is the result of both act and intent. An adult person cannot become a citizen of a state by simply intending to, nor does any one become such citizen by mere residence. The residence and the intent must coexist and corres]>ond; and though, under ordinary circumstances. the former may be sufficient evidence of the latter, it is not conclusive, and the contrary may always be shown; and when the question of citizenship turns on the intention with which a person has resided in a particular state, his own testimony, under ordinary circumstances, is entitled to great weight on the point.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. City of Ashland · Eisele v. Oddie