Whitney v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the defendant is in lawful possession of the property, and the plaintiff is a stranger to the title, he cannot complain of the verdict for its value in favor of the defendant. The defendant may be accountable to the true owner, but is, in the first instance, even though a mere bailee, entitled to the return of the property, or its value, if return is waived.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Salter v. Sutherland