Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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 think it cannot be questioned that justice is always better served and the appearance of justice assured when every party is afforded the opportunity to build his case by ‘evidence and argument’. As Judge Learned Hand has said, ‘Justice does not depend upon legal dialectics so much as upon the atmosphere of the court room, and that in the end depends primarily upon the judge.’ Brown v. Walter, 2 Cir., 62 F.2d 798, 800 (quoted in Knapp v. Kinsey, 6 Cir., 232 F.2d 458, 467 , certiorari denied 352 U.S. 892 , 77 S.Ct. 131 , 1 L.Ed.2d 86 ). “To keep 'the atmosphere of the court room’ in a clear and true state of balance, and to make certain that justice satisfies the appearance of justice, counsel should not be denied the right to assist the court by oral argument in analyzing evidence and applying the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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