The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Original jurisdiction in equity, in a particular class of. eases, conferred by the Constitution on this court, has been interpreted to impose the duty to adjudicate according to such rules and principles as governed the action of the Court of Chancery in England, which administered equity at the time of the emigration of our ancestors, and down to the period when our Constitution was formed. And when the Constitution of the United States conferred that jurisdiction on this court, it cannot be construed to exclude the power possessed and constantly exercised by every court of equity then known, to use its discretion to award or refuse costs, as its judgment of the right of the ease, in that particular, might require. The court entertains no"doubt of its power to award costs, and deny the application lo file a bill of review;.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Kyte · Guardian Trust Co. v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.