Slaughter v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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. ““If upon the 1st day of November of any year the interest due for the year on any obligation remains unpaid, the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall indorse on such obligation ‘land forfeited’ and shall cause an entry to that effect to be made on the account kept with the purchaser, and thereupon said land shall be thereby forfeited to the state without the necessity of re-entry or judicial ascertainment and shall revert to the particular fund to which it originally belonged and be resold under the provisions of this chapter or any future law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. Adair