Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The'chancellor very clearly erred in dismissing the motion made by the appellant to set aside the sale of the lands in controversy, upon the theory that the appeal pending in this court deprived him. of all jurisdiction of the matter. We do not doubt that when a decree has been rendered by a court of equity, and an appeal has been prosecuted to iliis court from such decree, a chancellor would no longer have such jurisdiction of the cause as would enable him to render any further decree affecting the rights and equities of the parties in the same cause during the pendency of the appeal. The present motion, however, is a separate and distinct proceeding from the chancery suit which culminated in the decree from which the appeal in question was taken. It is based upon grounds which have nothing to do with the equities involved in and settled by the decree, and which have even originated subsequent to its rendition. The purpose of the motion is not to raise any question going behind the decree or concluded by it, but only to prevent any abuse of the process of the court by the agency of which it is sought to enforce the execution of the decree.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riverdale Cotton Mills v. Alabama & G. Mfg. Co.