Renn v. Samos’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. ““The matters which we are now asked to review and determine are mere incidents to the original suit, and grew out of proceedings had by way of motions and plaints made in it and the action of the court upon them. In these proceedings the defendants to the suit have no interest. They involve the rights and liabilities of the plaintiffs to the suit and the parties by and against whom they were had. Although they were incident to and grew out of the suit between the plaintiffs and defendants, and may, therefore, very properly be entitled and treated, in one sense, as part and portion of said suit, yet they are sufficiently independent and separate from it to warrant either of the parties whose rights and interests are affected by the ruling of the district court to bring the same to this court for review. The appellate jurisdiction of this court is not limited to the final judgments of the district court, in actions or suits, in the technical meaning of these terms. It extends to its final judgment in ‘all manner of pleas, plaints, motions, causes, and controversies,’ in and by which the rights of person and property of the parties to them may and have been finally determined.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keystone Pipe & Supply Co. v. Liberty Refining Co.