Cross v. De Valle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That a cross-bill is a mere, auxiliary suit, and a dependency of the original. It may be brought by a defendant against the plaintiff in the said suit, or against other defendants, or against both; but it must be touching the matters in question in the bill.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ames Realty Co. v. Big Indian Mining Co. · Patton v. Marshall

2. ““That an alien may take by deed or devise, and hold against any one but the sovereign until office found, is a familiar principle of law, which it requires no citation of authorities to establish. Nor is it affected by the fact that a statute of Rhode Island will permit aliens to take a license to purchase, which will protect them even as against the state; nor by the fact that a chancellor may not entertain a bill by an alien to enforce a trust, which, if conveyed to him, might immediately escheat to the crown.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abrams v. State

3. ““A cross-bill is brought * * *, or to obtain complete relief to all the parties as to the matters charged in tho original bill. It should not introduce any distinct matter. It is the auxiliary to the original suit, and a graft and dependency upon it. If its purpose be different from this, it is not a cross-bill, though it may have a connection with the same general subject.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southwestern Transp. Co. v. Pittsburg Coal Co.