Hughes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

81 federal appellate · 25 district · 75 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 286 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order that a judgment may constitute a bar to another suit, it must be rendered in a proceeding between the same parties or their privies, and the point'of controversy must be the same in both cases, and must be determined on its merits. If the first suit was dismissed for defect of pleadings or parties, or a misconception of the form of proceeding, or the want of jurisdiction, or was disposed of on any ground which did not go to the merits o£ the action, the judgment rendered will prove no bar to anothei suit.””

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. McNeal · Johnson v. Boyd-Richardson Co.

2. ““The patentee cannot complain of the proceeding, for the open, notorious, and exclusive possession of the premises by the parties claiming under Goodloe, when the patentee made his entry and received the patent, was sufficient to put him upon inquiry as to the interests, legal or equitable, held by them; and, if he neglected to make the inquiry, he is not entitled to any greater consideration than if he had made it, and ascertained the actual facts of the case.””

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co. · United States v. Beebe