Bertrand v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 15 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is, in effect, a statute of limitation, and, under the circumstances, was not unreasonable. It was demanded as a matter of safety in a great emergency. It was not calculated to take any reasonable being by surprise. It was known throughout the civilized world that a large part of the city of Chicago had been destroyed by. fire, and that the records of the courts and the records of deeds were all destroyed. This Daturaliy commanded the attention of all reasonable persons everywhere, and called upon them to attend and see what means would be adopted to mitigate the evils and dangers incident tp the. destruction. This legislation was not done in a corner, but before the observation of the civilized world. We cannot doubt the power of the General Assembly to pass the act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Land Co. v. Zeiss