Stewart v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. ““It may be enough sometimes merely to quote the language of that part of the charge which is supposed to be erroneous. That will do if the language quoted expresses a single, proposition of law with unambiguous directness, but if the quotation embraces different propositions, or, like those now before us, is supposed to carry implications beyond or outside of what is expressed, it is intended by the rule that the exception shall state the particular meaning or implication, the exact proposition of law objected to; and then, to enable this court to determine whether the language of the court embodied that proposition, either expressly or by implication, it is necessary that the language be brought up in the bill of exceptions, and set out totidem verbis, as required by Tille 11, in the specilication of error. * * * These rules, if carefully and intelligently followed, will accomplish the purpose of their adoption, namely, that this court shall not be compelled to consider questions not brought to the attention of the lower court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Columbus Const. Co. v. Crane Co.