Grattan v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““A minority of the court, of which the writer is one, is of opinion that the trial court could in its discretion take the testimony with a jury present, and at the close of the trial in his discretion submit or refuse to submit the matter to the jury, and that no abuse of discretion appeared in this ease. The conclusion that the ruling of the trial court must be affirmed follows from either view of practice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Murray