Donart v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An appeal is a right conferred by statute upon Superior Courts to review the- final determinations of inferior judicial tribunals, when causes tried therein are properly brought up for that purpose, and in the transfer of such proceedings the mode prescribed in the enactment granting the privilege is the measure of the, bestowed power in the exercise of which neither court nor party can restrict, enlarge, or diminish the authority given.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. Levens

2. ““The arrest of the proceedings in the action which thus results by operation of law is tantamount to the service of an interlocutory injunction, which, when dissolved by a dismissal of the suit in equity, is not revived by taking an appeal from the decree rendered therein.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tot v. Gong