Devons v. Lee Logging Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““We have read plaintiff’s petition with particular care, and left it convinced that it cannot be construed into an act of commission. “Plaintiff’s contention is that defendant corporation actively set in operation the wagon he describes as being old, worn, and defective. “We deem it sufficient to say in reply that defendant corporation did not set in operation this wagon and oxen. It placed them in charge of plaintiff, in order that he might perform the work assigned to him. The allegations do not show that there is anything which can be classed as commission in this act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tripani v. Meraux

2. ““The court holds' that acts of omission are excluded from the class of cases actionable at the place of the accident by the words! quoted, ‘commit,’ ‘committed,’ ‘do,’ ‘done,’ used in the cited article of the Code of Practice. “These words, the court held, implied action necessarily, and wherever there is such action — that is, whenever the act! is actually done, or there was a commission, and not an act which amounts, as in the case before us for decision, to an omission — the case is then brought within the exception laid down in the decision hereafter cited.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tripani v. Meraux