Purcell v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““(1) For a declaratory judgment finding that the union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church was legal and valid, and that The Methodist Church is the legal successor to all of the properties and rights formerly held by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including the sole and exclusive right to use the name ‘Methodist Episcopal Church, South.’ “(2) That a permanent * * * injunction * * *, may be issued restraining and enjoining the defendants, their associates, agents, and all those confederating with them from using the name ‘Methodist Episcopal Church, South’, or any name similar to that name, or any contraction of that name, or any synonym thereof, as the name of any church, religious society, "or other organization existing, or which may be organized or exist independent of The Methodist Church. “(3) That a permanent, * * * injunction, * * * may be issued restraining and enjoining the defendants, their associates and all those joining or confederating with them, from using the name or appellation ‘Southern Methodist Church’ as the name of any church, religious society or organization organized or existing, or which may be organized or exist independently of The Methodist Church.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Purcell v. Summers