Hayes v. James’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “Be it remembered that heretofore, at the regular September term, 1889, of the district court, within and for the county of Las Animas, aforesaid, and subsequent to this cause being placed upon the docket of the said court on appeal from the county court, and on the first day of said term, said cause was called on the first call of the docket, and it was then announced by the attorneys of record for the respective parties herein, Dunbar & Lester for plaintiff, and Caldwell Yeaman and Bo. Sweeney for defendant, that said cause was at issue, and that it was a case for jury trial, which facts were noted by the judge upon his docket by entering thereon the letters 'I' and 'J,' meaning 'at issue' and 'jury trial,' but no formal record thereof was made upon the records of said court, and said cause was not at said time, or any other time, set down for trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. HAYES v. JAMES.