Sidener v. Galbraith’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We shall not undertake in this opinion to enumerate the particular instances in which a new action may he brought under this section. We content ourselves with showing that the present is not a continuation of the former action, within its meaning. We may premise that the previous action, claimed to have failed in this case, did not abate by the death of a party, nor was the judgment in it arrested or reversed on app&d; but, on the contrary, the judgment was affirmed on appeal to this court. We express no opinion on the question of negligence. The present case cannot be held to be a continuation of the former suit. The parties are not the same; the title on which the plaintiffs, the appellees in this court, base their right of action, is not the same; and the relief sought is not the same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Merrill v. Town of Monticello