Lewis Trustee v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

63 federal appellate · 39 district · 43 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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where the language of a statute is transparent, and its meaning clear, there is no room for the office of construction. There should be no construction where there is nothing-to construe. * * * Affirmative discussion, under such circumstances, is not unlike argument in support of a self-evident truth. The logic may mislead or confuse. It cannot strengthen the preexisting conviction.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wagner v. McDonald · Harris v. Dunn

2. ““Tlie United States are in .no wise bound by the bankrupt act. The clause above quoted is in pari materia with the several acts giving priority of payment to the United States, and was doubtless put in to recognize and reaffirm the rights which those statutes give, and to exclude the possibility of a different conclusion.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Barnes · Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Guarantee Title & Trust Co.

3. “It is a settled principle of equity that a creditor holding collaterals is not bound to apply them before enforcing his direct remedies against the debtor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville · Doe v. Northwestern Coal & Transportation Co.