Carter v. . Graves’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““It is to be observed that the deed was private property, and the defendant had no greater right to it after the trial, than he had before: the law interposed so far only as to give him a right to use it as evidence in the trial of the suit; and the law would not be true to itself, if, after the purpose was answered for which it dispossessed the plaintiff of the deed, it did not place her in statu quo, by re-delivering it to her.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Smithmeyer