Baumgartner v. Eigenbrot’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the law of torts, to harbor is to receive, clandestinely or without [legal] authority, a person for the purpose of so concealing him, that another having the right to the [legal] custody of such persons shall be deprived thereof; ... or, in a less technical sense, it is a reception of persons improperly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Khalifa v. Shannon

2. ““Abduction, in its broadest legal sense, signifies the act of taking and carrying away by force, which may be by fraud, persuasion, or open violence, a child, ward, wife, etc. In its more restricted sense it is confined to the taking of females for the purpose of marriage, concubinage, or prostitution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Khalifa v. Shannon

3. ““Abduction is the unlawful taking or detention by force, fraud, or persuasion of a person, as a wife, a child or a ward, from the possession, custody, or control of the person legally entitled thereto.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Khalifa v. Shannon