Savage v. Jeter’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. ““Defendant argues that summary process can be used only where it is expressly allowed by law, and that this act does not declare that the cause must be tried summarily. It is not essential that an act should declare this in so many words, if it is clear, from a plain interpretation of the act, that the intention of the Legislature was to make the proceeding summary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barrett v. Pierson