Rice v. Railroad Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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23 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Notwithstanding those decisions, the question was presented to the court for the third time in the ease of Patterson v. AVinn, 11 Wheat. 388 ; and on that occasion this court, after referring to the previous decisions, said: ‘We may therefore assume, as the settled doctrine of the court, that if a pateht is absolutely void upon its face, or the issuing thereof was without'authority, or prohibited by statute, or the state had no title, it may be impeached collaterally in a court of law in an action of ejectment.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Albritton v. Shaw

2. “Suits by an administrator, fiduciary, participant, or beneficiary of an employee benefit plan to ... compel [the Secretary] to take action required under this subchap-ter may be brought in the district court of the United States for the district where the plan has its principal office, or in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ocean Breeze Festival Park, Inc. v. Reich

3. “clear that it was not competent for Congress to pass the repealing act and divest the title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Minnesota