Wilson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““Whether the jurisdiction of tills court is upon its law side or its equity side will be determined ‘by the essential character of the case,’ but the right of removal is not affected by any such question. That right exists if, upon either side, the requisite jurisdiction exists. Where a cause brought here by removal cannot be entertained upon the one side, it must be assigned to the other; but it is not to be remitted to the state court if, upon either side, the federal court is competent to retain and decide it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stockton v. Oregon Short Line R.

2. ““That a state, by simply prescribing a peculiar form of procedure for its own courts, may in any case divest the rightful jurisdiction of those of the United States, is a doctrine to which X am wholly unable to assent, and which •does not appear to be supported by any precedent or authority.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stockton v. Oregon Short Line R.