Ferguson v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When it becomes the duty of a court of equity to take property under its own charge through a receiver, the property becomes chargeable with the necessary expenses Incurred in taking care of and saving it, including the allowance to the receiver for his services, buch is unquestionably the well-settled law, and a citation of authorities in support of it would seem to be needless. Mo case to the contrary has been cited by counsel, nor any in support of their position, except those heretofore noticed; and it Is believed that not one decision can be found holding that the proper expenses of a receiver, or his compensation, shall be faxed as costs against the losing party, where his appointment was proper and legal, and made by a court in the exercise of its undoubted jurisdiction, and where tlie fund in his hands is sufficient, to pay the same. Mor does the legality or propriety of his appointment depend at all upon the event of the suit. Because it is ultimately determined that the plaintiff in action is not entitled to recover or to the relief he seeks, non consta,t that the action of the court or the conduct of the parties in the appointment of the receiver has been irregular, improper, erroneous, or unnecessary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Elk Fork Oil & Gas Co. v. Foster