Parmelee v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““We will add, if this court should entertain jurisdiction upon a certificate alone in the absence of any evidence of the question in the record, then the Supreme Court of the State can give the jurisdiction in every case where the question is made by counsel in the argument. The office of the certificate, as it respects the Federal question, is to make more certain and specific what is too general and indefinite in the record, but it is incompetent to originate the question within the true construction of the 25th section [of the Judiciary Act].” Id., p. 39.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Felix v. Scharnweber · Honeyman v. Hanan

2. “appear in the pleadings of the suit,-or from the evidence in the course of the trial, in the instructions asked for, or from exceptions taken to the rulings of the court,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Home for Incurables v. City of New York

3. “it must be that such a question was necessarily involved in the decision, and that the State court would not have given % judgment without deciding it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Home for Incurables v. City of New York