Snydacker v. Brosse’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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

1. ““In this case, however,, there is a fatal objection to the justification, by Comfort, under the writ of retorno habendo, as it was in favor of himself and Snydacker. We are aware of no case in which the law authorizes a person to execute process in his own favor. To permit such a course of practice would lead to great oppression, wrong and irregularity. The law has wisely entrusted the decision of disputes bétween citizens to persons wholly disinterested, and free from bias and the acrimony of feeling so frequently, if not uniformly, engendered by litigation; and the same is equally true of the persons selected to execute the process necessary to the adjustment of such disputes. The law will not entrust the power to a person to render or execute a judgment in his own favor. The writ of retorno habendo, therefore, could form no justification for any act done under it by Comfort, whatever it might have been to any other constable having no interest in the litigation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 142 Ill. App. 30 - People ex rel. National Plating Co. v. Loeff