Cambuston v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a Circuit Court enters judgment in a civil action, either upon a verdict or on a finding of the court upon the facts, in cases where such finding is allowed, execution may, on motion of either party, at the discretion of the court, and on such conditions for the security of the adverse party as it. may judge proper, be stayed forty-two day's from the time of entering judgment, to give time to file in the clerk’s office of said court a petition for a new trial. If such petition is tiled within said term of forty-two days, with a certificate thereon from any judge of such court that he allows it to he tiled, which certificate he may make or refuse at his discretion, execution shall, of course, be further stayed to the next session of said court. If a new trial be granted, the former judgment shall be thereby rendered void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanborn v. Bay

2. ““from filis legislation it is apparent that it was not the policy of Congress to suspend the operation of a judgment so as to allow an application for a new trial in any case beyond a period of 42 days from the time of its rendition.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanborn v. Bay

3. ““All of the said conns (of the United States) shall have power to grant new trials in cases where there inis been a trial by jury, for reasons for which new trials have usually been granted in the courts of law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanborn v. Bay