Blossom v. The Milwaukee Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

50 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A purchaser or bidder at *a master’s sale in chancery subjects himself quoad hoc to the jurisdiction of the court, and can be compelled to perform his agreement specifically. It would seem that he must acquire a corresponding right to appeal and claim, at the hands of the court, such relief as the rules of equity proceedings entitle him to.” Blossom v. Railroad Co., 1 Wall. 655 , 17 L. Ed. 673 ; Delaplaine v. Lawrence, 10 Paige (N. Y.) 602.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co. · Magann v. Segal

2. ““Sureties signing appeal bonds, stay bonds, delivery bonds, and receiptors under writs of attachment, become quasi parties to the proceedings, and subject themselves to the jurisdiction of the court, so that summary judgments may be rendered on their bonds or recognizances.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gordon v. Third Nat. Bank of Chattanooga · Empire State-Idaho Mining & Developing Co. v. Hanley

3. “where the act complained of was a mere ministerial duty, necessarily growing out of the decree which was being carried into effect, no appeal would lie”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Isidor Paiewonsky Associates, Inc. v. Sharp Properties, Inc. · United States v. Ray