Flannery v. Shanks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It will thus be seen that the notice in this case did not fix the day, time or place for the contestee to answer or otherwise defend the contest, and this being true, the circuit court was, as insisted by the appellant, without jurisdiction to try or determine same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Layne v. Owsley

2. ““And the contestee, L. L. Flannery, is hereby warned to answer and defend, if he so desires, not less than three nor more than ten days after service of this notice. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Layne v. Owsley