Doe v. Childress’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “where the power of a State court to proceed in a suit is subject to be impeached, it cannot be done except upon an intervention by the assignee, who shall state the facts and make the proof necessary to terminate such jurisdiction. ... If the assignee had intervened in the suit, he would have been entitled' to the property or its proceeds, subject to this [the attachment] lien. He did not, however, intervene or take any measures in the case. He allowed the property to be sold under the judgments in the attachment suits, and those under whom the defendant claim! purchased it, obtaining' a perfect title to the same.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Friedlander

2. “Where the power of a State • court to proceed in a suit- is subject to be impeached, it eannot be. done except upon an'intervention' by the assignee, who shall state the facts and make”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Conner v. Long

3. “This rule gains, whether* the four months’principle is applicable, or whether it is mot applicable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Conner v. Long