Robeson v. . Hodges’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Capps v. Capps , 85 N.C. 408 , it is held that when a case which is properly cognizable in the Superior Court, but erroneously brought before the clerk, gets into the Superior Court, by appeal or otherwise, the latter court will amend the summons and treat the action as if originally brought in the Superior Court, and proceed; but when the action is properly triable in the Probate Court, it is error in the Superior Court, on appeal, to allow the complaint to be amended by engrafting new matter, cognizable only in the Superior Court at term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. . Artis

2. “It is the jurisdiction of the justice of the *Page 398 peace which, on appeal, gives jurisdiction to the Superior Court, and, of course, if the justice had no jurisdiction, the Superior Court could have none, and, therefore, by allowing an amendment in the transcript, which enlarges the cause of action beyond the jurisdiction of the justice it must necessarily oust itself of jurisdiction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McLaurin v. . McIntyre

3. “; and again in Ijames v. McClamroch , 92 N.C. 365 :”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McLaurin v. . McIntyre