Armendiaz v. de la Serna’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In this connection it is proper to observe, on the suggestion of counsel for plaintiff, that this court should examine the record of the suit here pending on appeal, between the defendant and Sam Roman, to determine his liability to her, in aid of the jurisdiction of the court below. The court is of opinion that such examination of another record, not in evidence in the record of this cause, would be wholly improper in any point of view. The merits or correctness of decisions made in one case can never be dependent on the contingency of a decision not made final in another, nor put in _ evidence in the cause at the time of such decision in the first. Moreover, it is believed that such a practice of referring to other records or matters dehors that which is under consideration, would be fraught with dangerous consequences, and tend to unjust decisions between litigants. The hearing and decision here should be, and is required by law to be, exclusively upon the record of each cause here appealed, just as it stood in the court from which it is brought.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pfeffer v. Mahnke · Zarate v. Unknown Heirs of Zarate