Seaver v. Bigelows’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true, tlie litigation involves a common fund, which exceeds the sum of $2,000, but neither of the judgment creditors has any interest in it exceeding the amount of his judgment. Hence, to sustain an appeal in this class of cases, where separate anil distinct interests are in dispute of an amount less than the statute requires, and whore the joinder of parties is permitted by the mere indulgence Of the court, for'its convenience and to save expense, would be giving a privilege to the parties not common to other litigants, and which is forbidden by law. ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt · Sioux Falls Nat. Bank v. Swenson

2. “separate and distinct interests depending on separate and distinct judgments,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schwed v. Smith · Gibson v. Shufeldt

3. “Similar decree made for the same reason in the case, of Field v. Bigelow, and in one branch of Myers v. Fenn.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt