Hoxie v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “was not made returnable to the court which was asked to amend it, but to one which sat a year before [and would] have given it cognizance of a cause which, on its face, was made returnable to another tribunal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Jamlane, No. Cv92 050 58 57 (May 19, 1992)

2. “When the power to hear and determine a cause is wanting, as in this case [defective return date], there is no jurisdiction, and no court can pass an order creating jurisdiction for itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 3653 - Sodhi v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance, No. Cv 960564554 (Mar. 10, 1998)