Crocker v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Now, as it was well settled, that a court of equity would not entertain a case asking for relief, where the party complaining had a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law, the practical inquiry in this case is, whether, under the former practice, the plaintiff would have had a plain and adequate remedy, for the wrong of which she complains, by motion to the Court, and in the case, in which the judgment in question was rendered. If she had, then she cannot maintain an action on the equity side of the Court, to obtain the redress sought, but must resort to the simpler and less expensive remedy by motion. “A review of the authorities will show beyond dispute, that the Court of Common Pleas has always obtained and exercised the power to entertain such a motion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Life Insurance Co. v. Mobley