Lewis v. Shainwald’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jurisdiction of this court is derived from the constitution and laws of the united States, and these rules are simply rules of practice, for regulating the modi; of proceeding in the courts. They do not. and could not, properly, either limit or enlarge the jurisdiction of the court. The rule quoted simply regulates the practice in exercising the jurisdiction of the court in those respects wherein the rules adopted do not apply; but the practice of the high court of chancery is to be applied, not as controlling, but simply as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alger v. Anderson

2. ““In all cases where the rules prescribed by this court or by the circuit court <io not apply, iho practice of the circuit court shall be regulated by the present practice of the high court of chancery in England, so far as the same may reasonably be applied consistently wlih the local circumstances and local conveniences of the district wliere the court is held, not as positive rules, but as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alger v. Anderson