Coney v. Manele’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think that a denial of tenancy, especially if in writing as in this case, even Avhere the tenancy is well set forth in the complaint, and a setting up of another title, hostile to the plaintiff’s title, whereby the magistrate becomes advised that the defendant claims adversely to the plaintiff, and not under him, is sufficient to take it out of the jurisdiction of district magistrates under these statutes; and it seems to us that if, after such a disavowal and setting up of an adverse title on the part of the defendant, the magistrate could go on and inquire whether his title is good, he would be passing upon the defendant’s title, and stretching the authority of the law greatly beyond Avhat Avas contemplated; and that the consequences of such a holding would be more likely to lead to confusion and a usurpation of authority on the part of the magistrate, than the holding as at present is likely to render the statute nugatory and deprive the landlords of their remedy.” (Coney v. Manele, 4 Haw. 157 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sentaro Yanagi v. Kenshiro Oka