Shelton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a very strong and forced presumption to make, in most cases, within the same State, that all its citizens have knowledge or notice of all the suits that may be pending in all the courts of record in the State. But though we know it is the presumption of an impossibility, yet the urgent policy of the rule has forced its adoption. But it would be an absurd and unreasonable extension of it to make it apply to every court in the Union. This would shock the common sense of mankind, and bring odium upon the whole doctrine. The phrase thrown out in the books, in laying down the rule that (683) ‘Us pen-dens is notice to all the world,’ must be limited in its construction to all persons within the jurisdiction or State where the suit was pending. It can not be carried further upon correct principles or reason, and there is no authority on the question to control us.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 149 F. Supp. 61 - Sigler v. Youngblood Truck Lines, Inc.