Long v. Ansell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same [.]”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Howard v. Webb · 47 Ill. App. 3d 357 - People v. Flinn

2. ““History confirms the conclusion that the immunity is limited to arrest. See opinion of Mr. Justice Wylie in Merrick v. Giddings [ 11 D.C. 55 ]. The cases cited in support of the contrary view rest largely upon doubtful notions as to the historic privileges of members of Parliament before the enactment in 1770 of the statute of 10 George III, c. 50. That act declared that members of Parliament should be subject to civil process, provided that they were not ‘arrested or imprisoned.’ When the Constitution was adopted, arrests in civil suits were still common in America. It is only to such arrests that the provision applies. Williamson v. United States, 207 U.S. 425 , 28 S.Ct. 163 , 52 L.Ed. 278 .” 55 S.Ct. at p. 22 . Writ of Mandamus is made peremptory.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Yuma Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Hardy

3. “The general rule that witnesses, suitors, and their attorneys, while in attendance in connection with the conduct of one suit, are immune from service of process in another, is founded, not upon the convenience of the individuals, but of the court itself. * * * As commonly stated and applied, it proceeds upon the ground that the due administration of justice requires that a court shall not permit interference with the progress of a cause pending before it, by the service of process in other suits, which would prevent, or the fear of which might tend to discourage, the voluntary attendance of those whose presence is necessary or convenient to the judicial administration in the pending litigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 44 F. Supp. 67 - Hardie v. Bryson