Caley v. Portland’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “‘ ‘ The words, ‘ The said P. T.. Caley agreeing to work said claim, ’ do not call for continuous working. All that they did require was a reasonable amount of work with reference to the object to be attained, to wit, the extraction at a profit of ores from the ter-, ritory. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Caley v. Portland

2. ““Witness our hands and seals this 20th day of August, 1895. “James Portland, [seal.] “Matt. Mulligan, [seal.] “F. T. Caley. [seal.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Caley v. Portland