Rowland v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We hold that the trial judge was correct in his findings and judgment. As trier of the facts, he heard the many witnesses who appeared, evaluated the conflicting testimony, sifted the evidence painstakingly to arrive at the findings here controverted by the appellant. Unless error is made clearly to appear, the findings of the chancellor who heard the testimony, if supported by the evidence and if the testimony is conflicting, will not be gainsaid by an appellate court. The testimony in some of its phases is fraught with conflicts; the chancellor’s findings are supported by the evidence; no error has been made to appear, and we find that the axiomatic doctrine of noninterference by an appellate court under such circumstances is applicable here. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 124 So. 2d 25 - Stevens v. Devine