Young v. Mackall’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I cannot assent to the proposition that all cases of direct and express trust, and arising' between trustee and cestui que trust, are to be withdrawn from tlie operation of the statute of limitations, notwithstanding a clear and certain remedy exists at law. * * * A review of the decisions will enable us, as I apprehend, -to deduce from them a safer and sounder doctrine, and to establish upon the solid foundations of authority and policy this rule: that the trusts intended by the courts of equity not to be reached or affected by the statute of limitations are those technical and continuing trusts which are not at all cognizable at law, but fall within the proper, peculiar, and exclusive jurisdiction of this court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Miles v. Vivian