Stewart v. McClung’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district · 7 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon the whole, our own judgment inclines us to the opinion that the phrase ‘necessary wearing apparel,’ as used in our statute, may include in it a watch of moderate value without doing violence to its meaning. We are not, therefore, prepared to say that a watch of moderate value is not a necessary article of wearing apparel, and as such exempt, when it- is made to appear affirmatively that the watch and other articles of apparel selected or reserved do not exceed the amount limited by the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re H. L. Evans & Co.

2. ““It would not be doing any great violence to the meaning of the term ‘wearing apparel,’ as used in the bankrupt act, to include in it a gold watch of moderate value. The definition of the word ‘apparel,’ as given by lexicographers, is not confined to clothing. The idea of ornamentation seems'to be a rather prominent element in the word, and it is not improper to say that a man ‘wears’ a watch or ‘wears’ a cane.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re H. L. Evans & Co.