Pelzer Manuf. Co. v. Cely’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As we understand it, the Circuit Court having once acquired jurisdiction of a cause and the parties thereto, retains such jurisdiction until it is lost, and it is not lost until the jurisdiction of this Court attaches. Now, as it has always been held that the jurisdiction of this Court does not attach until the return required by rules 1 and 2 has been filed in this Court, for the obvious reason that until the return is filed, this Court has no record upon which it could take jurisdiction of any cause, except such as are specially provided for, either by the Constitution, the statutes or rules of Court, and as it is very clear that the present case does not fall within any of those classes, it follows necessarily that this Court never acquired jurisdiction of this cause until after the return was filed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilson v. Southern Ry. Co.