Roukos’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. ““Corrections of the ordinary mistakes of a tribunal in the interpretation of law or findings of fact should be sought in appropriate appellate procedure; but the Probate Court in Common with all courts has authority to rectify its own mistakes if the act complained of is the result of procedure not in accordance with its authority or is so the result of inadvertence or mistake that it is in truth not the act of the court. 31 Am.Jur., Judgments, Sec. 716; Waters v. Stickney, 12 Allen, 1 , 90 Am.Dec. 122; Harris v. Starkey, 176 Mass. 445 , 57 N.E. 698 , 79 Am.St.Rep. 322 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Merriam

2. “in accordance with the admonition of the statute”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clough v. Newton