Branson v. Wirth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As to the second — the memorandum made in the margin of the record — it is not known when it was made, except that it must have been made after the 19th of May, 1826, the date of the letter referred to in the memorandum itself, which was eight years after the date of the patent; nor is it known who made it, nor on what evidence it was made. Such a memorandum, being no part of the record itself, cannot be received to contradict the record. Tt would be a very dangerous precedent to allow it to have that effect. It is not the record of any act of the department, nor of any document entitled to registry in its archives. It is nothing but a memorandum of a third person, and hearsay evidence at best.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Slattery v. Heilperin

2. “whilst the recital of public acts are regarded as evidence of the facts recited, it is otherwise, as we have seen, with reference to private acts. They ate not evidence except against the parties who procure them.”

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

3. “An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Giles Egerton,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wirth v. Branson