Ribon v. Railroad Companies’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 11 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule in equity as to parties defendant is that all whose interests will be affected by the decree sought to be obtained must be before the court; and if any such person cannot be reached by process — do not voluntarily appear, or from a jurisdictional objection going to the person in the courts of the United States, cannot be made parlies — the bill musí bo dismissed. Where a decree can be made as to those present, without affecting the rights of those who are absent, the court will proceed. But if the interests of those present and of those absent are inseparable, the obstacle is insuperable.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Detweiler v. Holderbaum · Consolidated Textile Corp. v. Dickey

2. ““And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall he a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit to the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Evans v. Faxon