Bischoffsheim v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district ·

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

1. ““In courts of equity a bill or a cross-bill alleging that the defendant has in- his possession or power documents or papers relating to the matters of the bill which, if produced, will establish their truth, is the foundation of the pi'oceeding. The defendant is required by the bill to admit or deny the truth of these allegations. If he admits having possession or power over any of the documents or papers, he is required by the bill, and is prima facie bound, to describe them either in the body of- his answer or in a schedule to it. The plaintiff then moves the court that the defendant may be ordered to. produce and leave in the hands of the proper officer the documents and papers, with liberty to the plaintiff to take copies thereof. Upon this application, the defendant may controvert the materiality of the evidence sought for, and he can in any event be required to produce only such documents and papers as are referred to in his answer to the bill. This is the ordinary and the only practice to compel the production of documents except under special circumstances, as where deeds or other papers contested as false or forged are ordered to be brought into court for insxxection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oro Water, Light & Power Co. v. City of Oroville