Walden v. Bodley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 federal appellate · 11 district · 17 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It would be a reproach to the administration of justice, if in this case the parties should be left, by the decision of this court, apparently, as remote from a final determination of it, as they were 40 years ago. It -is true, the answer prays merely for a dissolution of the injunction, and that the bill may be dismissed. But the court have, by the bill, answer, and evidence, the equities of the parties before them; and, having jurisdiction of the main points, they may settle the whole matter. A court of equity cannot act upon a case which is not fairly made by the bill and answer. But it is not necessary that these should point out in detail the means which the court should adopt in giving relief.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Central Improvement Co. v. Cambria Steel Co. · First Calumet Trust & Savings Bank v. Rogers

2. ““ A decree dismissing a bill generally may be set set up in bar of a second bill having the same object in view, but when the bill has been dismissed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction, which shows that the merits were not heard, the dismissal is not a bar to the second suit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. McNeal