Pin v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Congress has organized a land department of the government, whose business it is made to determine those questions which arise out of the disposal of the public lands, and the courts of the country cannot interfere to regulate or control that business, without introducing uncertainty and confusion into the whole system. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phipps v. Stancliff