Biddle v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The action is on a judgment already recovered by the plaintiff, and it might have been brought in his own name, and not as administrator, For the debt was due to him, he being answerable for it to the estate of his intestate; and it ought to be considered as so brought, his style of administrator being merely descriptive, and not being essential to his right to recover. It is important to the purposes of justice that this should be so, for an administrator appointed here could not maintain an action upon this judgment, not being privy to it. Nor c~uld he maintain an action on the original contract, for the defendants might plead in bar the judgment recovered against them in New York.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilkinson v. Culver · Brown v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.