Kissel v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case at bar the contempt complained of was not a contempt of the special judge, nor of any regular judge, but of the Hamilton Circuit Court by whose authority the writ of injunction was issued. ... If appellant did any act in violation of the injunction it was an offense against the circuit court and not the special judge, and if such act be a contempt it is a contempt of the court and not the special judge. The circuit court at the trial did act through the special judge, but when the special judge rendered the final decree he had exercised the jurisdiction he was called upon to entertain. If jurisdiction is again to be put into exercise it must be done by the court through the then regular acting judge or by some one legally authorized to act as judge. See, Kirk v. Milwaukee, etc., Co., 26 Fed. 501 ; Williamson’s case, 26 Pa. St. 9, 67 Am. Dec. 374 ; State v. McKinnon, 8 Ore. 487 ; Hapalje on Contempts, §§ 8, 13, Hawes, Jurisdiction, §221; Taylor v. Moffat, 2 Blackf, 305.” (p. 306.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hess v. Hess

2. ““. . . shall have power to hear and determine said cause until the same is finally disposed of, or change of venue thereof in proper cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. v. Circuit Court of Huntington County