Brown v. Hiatts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]nterest is the compensation allowed by law, or fixed by the parties, for the use or forbearance of money, or as damages for its detention”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 189 N.J. Super. 411 - Tobin v. Jersey Shore Bank · 281 N.J. Super. 124 - Brinkley v. Western World, Inc.

2. ““It is unnecessary to go at length over the grounds upon which the court has repeatedly held that the statutes of limitation of the several States did not run against the right of action of parties during the continuance of the civil war. It is sufficient to state that the war was accompanied by the general incidents of a war between independent nations; that the inhabitants of the Confederate States on the one hand, and of the loyal States on the other, became thereby reciprocally enemies to each other, and were liable to be so treated without reference to their individual dispositions or opinions; that during its continuance all commercial intercourse and correspondence between them were interdicted by principles of public law as well as by express enactments of Congress; that all contracts previously made between them were suspended ; and that the courts of each belligerent were closed to the citizens of the other.””

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