Brown v. Worster’s Empirical Analysis

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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 witness must answer. * * * If irrelevant or otherwise improper cross-examination is indulged in, it can ordinarily be dealt with satisfactorily as a question of costs. In doubtful cases this, I think, is the proper course. Where the offense is clear, the court has ample power to stop it summarily.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whitehead & Hoag Co. v. O'Callahan