Travis v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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. ““This court held in Duncan v. Ashcraft, 121 Ala. 552 [ 25 So. 735 ], that the omission of the name of the owner from the certificate rendered it insufficient to create a lien [this requirement now omitted from the statute]; and we think in this case, that the complaint should aver facts sufficient to show that a lien existed in order to show a cause of action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roney v. Dothan Produce Co.