Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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76 federal appellate · 18 district · 13 state decisions

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

1. ““The rule is that if the merits of the cause may be determined without prejudice to the rights of necessary parties, absent and beyond the jurisdiction of the court, it will be done; and a court of equity will strain hard to reach that result. [Citing cases.]””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Green v. Green · Photometric Products Corp. v. Radtke

2. ““The rule is that if the merits of the cause may be determined without pre- ' judice to the rights of necessary parties, absent and beyond the jurisdiction of the court, it will be done; and a court of equity will strain hard to reach that result. West v. Randall, Fed.Cas. No. 17,424, 2 Mason 181, 196 (opinion by Mr. Justice Story); Cole Silver Mining Co. v. Virginia & G. H. W. Co., Fed.Cas. No. 2,990, 1 Sawy. 685, 689 (opinion by Mr. Justice Field); Story’s Equity Pleadings (8th Ed.) §§ 77, 96. And see Russell v. Clark’s Executors, 7 Cranch 69, 98 , 3 L.Ed. 271 ; Elmendorf v. Taylor, 10 Wheat. 152, 167, 168 , 6 L.Ed. 289 . Cf. Equity Rule 39. “We refer to the rule established by these authorities because it illustrates the diligence with which courts of equity will seek a way to adjudicate the merits of a case in the absence of interested parties that cannot be brought in.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 109 F. Supp. 330 - Capitol Records, Inc. v. Mercury Record Corp.