O'Conor v. Witherby’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. ““The statute uses the word ‘of’ instead of ‘upon.’ It is said that a pledge ‘upon’ personal property is meaningless. The intention of affiant, however, is plain, and it might properly be held a mere clerical error which would not affect its sufficiency.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knutsen v. Phillips