Howard v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Certainty in pleading is a fundamental requirement in that art. When it is ignored, confusion and oftentimes unnecessary expense is introduced into a perfectly simple case which may have been determined expeditiously and at a minimum of cost as the rules of good pleading are designed to accomplish.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Saucer v. City of West Palm Beach