Willoughby v. Stevens.’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. “When a demurrer goes to the merits of the action, judgment sustaining it is conclusive upon the parties and will bar another action for the same cause, but when it goes only to matters of form it does not have this effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. School Directors v. . Asheville