Kemper v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In this view we cannot concur. The object of the saving clause in the act with respect to petitions for the establishment of roads then pending in the circuit court was to enable the persons who had instituted those proceedings to prosecute them to a conclusion without a change of fórm. It was not intended to take from such persons the power to procure a dismissal of those proceedings. The case stood in the circuit court as if the new act had not been passed. If, therefore, the petitioners had the right to dismiss the proceedings before the act of March, 1908, such right was in no way affected or impaired by that act. The law is well settled that a man can ordinarily dismiss his suit at pleasure upon the payment of costs. ’ ’ ( 111 Va. at page 430 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Norfolk v. County of Norfolk

2. ““12. All petitions for the establishment of new roads or bridges wliich may be pending in the circuit court of said county on the day this Act becomes effective shall be heard and disposed of by -said court as if this Act had not been amended. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Norfolk v. County of Norfolk

3. “ordinary inconveniences of double litigation, which in the eyes of the law would be compensated by costs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bivens v. Hyatt