Stovall v. Banks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate · 3 district · 42 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been argued on behalf of the defendants in error that the decree of ,the superior court, if admitted, would have been only prima facie evidence against the sureties in the bond. Were that conceded it would not justify the exclusion of the evidence. But the concession cannot be made. The decree settled that the administrator of the intestate, Alfred Eubanks, held in his hands sums of money belonging to the equitable plaintiffs in this suit, as distributees of the intestate’s estate, which he had been ordered to pay over by a court of competent jurisdiction, and the record established his failure to obey the order. Thereby a breach of his administration bond was conclusively shown. Certainly the administrator was concluded. And the sureties in the bond are bound to the full extent to which their principal is bound.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Simonitsch v. Bruce · Southern Surety Co. v. Burney

2. ““Sureties in an administration bond are bound by a decree against their administrator finding assets in Ms hands, and nonpayment of them over to the same extent to which the administrator himself is bound. They cannot attack collaterally a decree made against him on such a subject.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gillispie v. Riggs

3. “some future orders of the court may possibly become necessary to carry such final decree into effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Caruso