The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. James Stimpson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

82 federal appellate · 13 district · 42 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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] party has no right to cross-examine any witness except as to facts and circumstances connected with the matters stated in his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him as such in the subsequent progress of the cause.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Park · Smith v. Missouri, K. & T. R. Co.

2. ““It seems to us, tkerefore, tkat all courts ougkt to be, as indeed tkey generally are, invested with a large discretion on this subject, to prevent the-most mischievous consequences in the administration of justice to suitors; and we think that tke Circuit Courts possess this discretion in as ample a manner as otker judicial tribunals. We do not feel at liberty, therefore, to interfere with tke exercise of this discretion. * * * It is sufficient for us, however, tkat it was a matter of discretion and practice, in respect to which we possess no authority to revise tke decision of tke Circuit Court.”-”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tucker v. Peiler

3. “to prevent patentees being surprised, at the trial of the cause, by evidence of a nature which they could not be presumed to know, or be prepared to meet, and thereby to subject them either to most expensive delays, or to a loss of their cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eaton Corp. v. Appliance Valves Corp.