In re Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 8 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The general doctrine that, where there is a fund in court to he distributed among different claimants, a decree of distribution will not preclude a claim ant not embraced in its provisions, but baring rights similar to those _ of other claimants who are thus embraced, from asserting by bill or petition his right to share in the fund, is established by numerous authorities, both in England and the United States.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boyd v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. · Rutherford v. Union Land & Cattle Co.

2. ““None of them suggest even the proposition that the judgment or decree .affirmed concludes the rights of third parties not before the court, or in any respect affects their rights. It would have been against all pn'inciple and all reason had they asserted anything of the kind. There is, indeed, a class of cases affecting the personal status of parties, in which a judgment necessarily binds the whole world; but it is not of these we are 'speaking. We refer to judgments at law, or decrees in chancery, affecting rights of parties to property. They bind only the parties before the court and those who stand, in privity with them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boyd v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.