Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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

1. ““---It was not necessary, we think, that the petition. should aver wherein it would appear that the petitioner’s omission to enter or prosecute his appeal was from accident, mistake, defect of notice, or otherwise without fault on his part. That is a matter of proof and it need not be specifically alleged.---” Ellis v. Petitioner, 116 Me. 462, 466 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patterson v. Patterson