Davis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 26 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is manifest that the issues do not describe any specific property or money of which delivery in specie is sought; so that, for the moment, the provision of the statute which relates to delivery and the commitment of a defendant for his refusal to deliver upon his conviction, may be laid out of view. Let it, then, be assumed that upon a trial it be found that the original defendants received certain moneys and other personal property belonging to the deceased testator, and had withheld and converted the same in an amount and value shown. Is there any reason why the court could not, as required by the statute, ‘render judgment according to the finding1? We know of none, and none has been pointed out.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Fitzgerald

2. “The procedure authorized by those statutes `is a summary and quick method of bringing property into the estate * * *' * * * devised not merely to discover assets, but also to expedite the administration of estates by affording a new and special remedy for collecting assets.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zeitinger v. Mitchell

3. “save only where there may be sufficient reason disclosed in exceptional cases why the matter, in whole or in part, might not be tried in the probate court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Clay County State Bank v. Waltner