Missouri v. Fiske’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

126 federal appellate · 84 district · 23 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 473 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'What is a suit? We understand it to be the prosecution, or pursuit, of some claim, demand, or request. In law language, it is the prosecution of some demand in a Court of justice.'”

   17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Petty v. Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission

2. ““But, if the decree of the federal court can be considered as determining the ownership of the shares so as to bind the state in later tax proceedings upon the death of the life tenant, and there is a federal right to have that effect given to the decree, that federal right can be specially set up and claimed in the proceeding in the state court, and, if the right is finally denied, the decision may be the subject of review by this Court in case the appropriate procedure is followed.” See, also, Dugas v. American Surety Co., 300 U.S. 414 , 428, 57 S.Ct. 515 , 521, 81 L.Ed. 720 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Armour & Co. v. Miller

3. “[federal] court has no authority to issue process against the State to compel it to subject itself to the court's judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation v. Hood