Gee v. Hasbrouck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon the argument it was urged by the appellants’ counsel that we should review the merits as contained in the findings of fact. On the other hand, appellees insist that the findings must be treated as final upon all questions of fact where there is dispute in the testimony. We are of the opinion that the latter is the correct practice, and must treat the findings of fact as conclusive where supported by testimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Webb v. Peck