Thompson v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is manifest that the object of this bill, especially after being amended, was to set aside the decree made in the original cause, and to substitute therefor a new decree supposed to be more advantageous to the complainants, upon the same matters which were before the court and under its consideration in the said cause. Under the guise of a bill for quieting title it was in reality a bill of review.”). 19 . See also Scotten, 235 U.S. at 411 , 35 S.Ct. 125 (explaining that a bill of review encompassed only manifest legal errors and”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hyatt v. Kappos

2. ““A decree for carrying out a settlement and compromise of a suit is certainly not, of itself, erroneous. When made by consent, it is presumed to be made in view of the existing facts, and that these were in the knowledge of the parties. In the absence of fraud in obtaining it, such a decree cannot be impeached.” Thompson v. Maxwell, 95 U. S. 391 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Maxwell Land Grant & Ry. Co.