Ryder v. Bateman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““No doubt you have a right in this court to look at the evidence which the plaintiff slates to be in his possession; but that right is only to be obtained npon a cross-bill. Every party has in this court that advantage which is not to be had so effectually in any other jurisdiction. lie may discover that which is in the knowledge and breast of the plaintiff before he proceeds to a hearing of the canse, bnt he must do it in such a way as to give the plaintiff an opportunity of stating all the circumstances connected with the matter. It is undoubtedly extremely important, when the plaintiff is called upon to furnish any discovery, that ho should do it in the proper form, and he at liberty to state all the circumstances relating to the matter, and that he should have all the guard and protection which he derives from being able to give a full statement of all the circumstances belonging to the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oro Water, Light & Power Co. v. City of Oroville

2. ““In all cases where the rules prescribed by this court do not apply, the practice of- the Circuit Court -shall be regulated by the present practice of the, High Court of Chancery in England, so far as the same may reasonably be applied consistently with the local circumstances and local conveniences of the district whore the court is held, not -as positive rales, but as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oro Water, Light & Power Co. v. City of Oroville

3. ““Congress lias not yet chosen to cliange the method of procedure in the federal courts of equity, and the very fact that Rev. St. § 724, is confined to courts of law, is conclusive that courts of equity must proceed as they did and do without the aid of that statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oro Water, Light & Power Co. v. City of Oroville