Weems & Waldo v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 45 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the old statute, Gertrude Watson would have been by the proceedings above a party defendant to the writ of error, as it was not required that the petition for writ of error should give the names of the defendants therein. It was sufficient if the bond was made payable to them, for it was the duty of the clerk upon filing the bond to obtain the necessary information from the papers in the cause from which to issue the citations. Therefore under the old statute the proper practice would have been for the Court of Civil Appeals to have merely stricken the proceedings from their docket as having been prematurely filed, leaving plaintiffs in error to perfect service in the court below upon Gertrude Watson, and then bring up the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Summers v. Silverton Nat. Farm Loan Ass'n

2. ““We are therefore of the opinion that the court of civil appeals did not err in holding that Gertrude Watson was not made defendant in the writ of error proceedings, and in dismissing the writ of error as to all of plaintiffs below, it not appearing from the record what interest in the land Gertrude Watson was entitled to, so that the judgment could be revised as between plaintiffs in error and the other plaintiffs below without prejudice to her rights.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Firence Footwear Co. v. Campbell