Hackley v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ It was not the intention of the rule to deprive a party of any of his substantial rights secured to him by resort to a cross-bill, but to preserve to him all the benefits to be derived from a cross-bill by stating the substance thereof in the answer. Upon the filing of a cross-bill the complainant had the right to demur or answer thereto, and take issue on the matter set up in the cross-bill, and support his defense by proofs; and there is nothing in the rule which deprives the party of the benefits of such an issue, or the complainant of any rights to which he was entitled,, in making defense to the matter set up in the answer, as fully as he could have done before the rule was made.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flynn v. Holmes

2. ““ We have no law that we have yet discovered, and certainly none has been pointed out to -us, which authorizes the sheriff to levy upon the track or road-bed of a railway, even against the corporation. If any levy can be made upon the property of the company, aside from such goods and chattels as may be found and seized and taken into custody by the sheriff, it is only, on the franchise of earning tolls, as provided by the corporation laws.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. City of Grand Rapids

3. ““A cross-bill can be sustained only on matters growing out of the original bill and embraced in it ” — citing authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Root v. Root