Receivers v. Du Bose’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The legislature of a state has no more authority to prescribe rules of procedure for courts of the United States, nor to limit the effect of judgments of such courts rendered in the exercise of their constitutional powers, than congress has to prescribe rules for the state courts, or to place limitations upon their judgments within the bounds of the states. * * * The several acts of the legislature upon the subject of receivers do not purport by their language to affect receivers appointed by the federal courts in their offi-' cial capacity, and courts will construe them so as to embrace such subjects as the legislature had the authority to legislate upon. End. Interp. St. § 271. These acts were not intended to affect the procedure of federal courts as to receivers appointed by such courts,””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Nat. Bank v. Ewing · Guaranty Trust Co. v. Galveston City R.