Driver v. Fortner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 prayer of a bill is deemed an essential part of it and if it want it, no decree can be rendered in favor of the complainant. “Bills usually seek both specific and general relief, viz: That certain things therein expressed may be decreed, ‘and that the complainant may have such other or further relief, as shall seem meet, or the case may require.’ If this latter prayer be made the Court will adjudge to the complainant such relief as is compatible with the case made out by the bill; although it be other than that specially asked; and even if the special prayer be wholly omitted it is competent under the general prayer to give the proper relief. But if a bill ask for specific relief only the Court is confined in its action to the special prayer and cannot go beyond it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frank v. Johnson