Ward v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule of construction is that a general affirmative statute does not repeal a prior particular statute or particular provisions of a prior statute upon the same sxibject, unless there is an invincible repugnancy between the two.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cordell v. Kent