Case v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 9 district · 14 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As to the receiver, the claim, if any such be made, is not worth serious consideration. He represents the bank, its stockholders, its creditors, and does not in any sense represent the government.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Weitzel · Altman v. McClintock

2. ““It may very well admit of doubt whether it is within his competency to submit himself, in the exercise of duties specially confided to liim by acts of Congress, to the control of the courts, and especially of those which can as sert no such jurisdiction by reason of their territorial limits. We are not called upon here to decide- this question. But we hare no hesitation in holding that however he 'may submit himself to the jurisdiction of those courts, and consent to be governed in his official action by their decrees, so far as they affect rights of parties who may come into court and be impleaded in the same suit, he has no authority to subject the United States to such jurisdiction, and to submit the rights of the government to litigation in any court, without some provision of law authorizing him so to do.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Buckley v. United States