Standley v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That .the circuit courts of appeals established by this act shall exercise appellate jurisdiction to review by appeal or by writ of error final decisions in the district court and the existing circuit courts in all cases other than those provided for in the preceding section of this act unless otherwise provided by law.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Salmon v. Mills · Carmichael v. City of Texarkana

2. ““But a final decision which completely determines the rights, in the suit in which it is rendered, of some of the parties who are not claimed to be jointly liable with those against whom the suit is retained, and a final decision which completely determines a collateral matter distinct from the general subject of litigation, and finally settles that controversy, is subject to review in this court by appeal or writ of error. In Withenbury v. U. S., 5 WaH. 819 [ 18 L. Ed. 613 ], several libels were filed for the condemnation, as prize of war, of large quantities of cotton and other property. These libels were consolidated, and various claims were interposed in the consolidated suit for portions of the property, and among them the claim of Withenbury & Doyle. An order was made dismissing this claim, with costs, while the suit remained pending and the cotton and its proceeds undisposed of. The Supreme Court held that this order was appealable, because it completely determined the whole matter in controversy between these claimants and the United States, and was final as to all the parties to that severable controversy. In Williams v. Morgan, 111 U. S. 684 , 4 S. Ct. 638 [ 28 L. Ed. 559 ], an order fixing the amount of the compensation of receivers in a suit to foreclose a mortgage on a railroad while the main suit was still pending was held by that court to be appealable, because it was final in its nature, and was made in a matter distinct from the general subject of litigation,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rector v. United States

3. ““There is no doubt that, in a suit in which the court obtains jurisdiction by the seizure or control of the subject-matter of tlie suit, the court which first acquires jurisdiction over it may retain the property in its custody until final judgment, and in many cases until such judgment is satisfied, and iliat it may use its writ of injunction or other proper process to effect this result. * * * It is equally well settled that the pendency of an action in one court will not bar or abate another action between the same parties, involving the same issues, in a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction, in which that jurisdiction is exercised, not by the seizure of the property, but by personal service of original process upon the defendants.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Merritt v. American Steel-Barge Co.