Bynum v. Lieber’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. ““Every judgment rendered by a court of justice is presumed to be correct, and it can scarcely be expected that this Court, in an appeal will seek, in the absence of assistance from the appellant, to detect errors which are not patent on the face of the record.” (Citing Schwan vs. Paterman, 123 La. 732 , 49 So. 486 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Louisiana Red Cypress Co. v. Kennedy & Denny, Inc.