Roberts v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

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 the delay was excused by the illness of the judge before whom the action was tried, and his consequent inability to settle the bill, and that the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ withdraw the case from the operation of the general rule.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dalton v. Gunnison