Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live’s Empirical Analysis

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27 federal appellate · 15 district · 30 state decisions

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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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““^Neither an injunction, nor a decree dissolving an injunction, passed in a circuit court, is reversed or nullified by an appeal or writ o£ error before the cause is heard in tins court.” Slaughter-house Cases, 10 Wall. 273 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hovey v. McDonald · Ozark Land Co. v. Leonard

2. ““Power to issue a supersedeas to a Judgment rendered in a subordinate court does not exist in this court where the writ of error is not sued out and served within 10 days (extended to (50 days by section 11, Act of June 1, 1872, c. 255, 17 Stat. 198 ) from the date of the judgment, except where the aggrieved party is obliged to sue out a second writ of error in consequence of the neglect of the clerk below to send up the record in season, or where the granting of such a writ is necessary to the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the court, as where the subordinate court improperly rejected the sureties to the bond because they were not residents of the district.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sutherland v. Pearce