Reynolds v. Iron Silver Min. Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““You all know, at least those who have been familiar with the jurisprudence of the state of New York, how many unseemly struggles there have been, as Justice Miller refers to, to get a ease now before one judge, and then before another. Under their peculiar system, you get an order before one judge; the beaten party goes to another judge, gets an order staying proceedings, and sets down a motion before a third to vacate the order, and one never knows when the litigation is at an end, or where it is to continue; whereas, if it is all continued before the same judge from the commencement to the close, there is a consistency in the rulings, if nothing else; and I think that .the orderly administration of justice requires, and justice itself will in-the long run and the general average be best secured, if litigation commenced before one judge continues before him until it shall be taken to an appellate tribunal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial Union of America, Inc. v. Anglo-South American Bank, Ltd.