Chambers v. Chambers’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. ““the law on the subject of what does or does not constitute the manifest weight of the evidence has been reiterated so many times it seems useless to repeat it here. Nevertheless, the rule is, that where the evidence is in conflict, as in the present case, the court’s findings will not be disturbed unless it is so manifestly against the weight of the evidence that it cannot stand, the reason being that the judge has observed the witnesses and heard them testify.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 13 Ill. App. 3d 380 - Pohren v. Pohren