Cross v. Sumter County’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “"* * * In February, 1942, he had become employed by the County. He had been on the job 11 days when the fatal injury occurred. His first week's wages had been turned over to the father. Before that time all that the father had received from the son were certain small sums derived from selling peanuts and doing odd jobs after school hours. At no time could the contributions made have exceeded the cost of support. " (Emphasis ours)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 117 So. 2d 487 - MacDon Lumber Co. v. Stevenson