Asa Green v. The Lessee of Henry Neal’s Empirical Analysis

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36 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But the case is very different where a question arises under a local law. The decision of this question, by the highest judicial tribunal of a state, should be considered as final by this court; not because the state tribunal, in such a case, has any power to bind this court; but because, in the language of the court, in the case of Shelby v. Guy, 11 Wheat. 361 , 6 L. Ed. 495 , ‘a fixed and received construction by a state in its. own .courts, makes a part of the statute law.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zeiger v. Pennsylvania R. · Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Pomona

2. ““In a great majority of the causes brought before tho federal tribunals, they are called to enforce the laws of the states. The rights of parties are determined under those laws, and it would be a strange perversion of principle if the judicial exposition of those laws by the state tribunals should be disregarded. These expositions constitute the law, and fix the rule of property, flights are acquired under this rule, and it regulates all the transactions which come within its scope. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Buford v. Holley

3. “an adherence by the Federal courts to the exposition of the local law, as given by the courts of the State, will greatly tend to preserve harmony in the exercise of the judicial power in the State and Federal tribunals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davie v. Briggs