Epley v. Hunter’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. ““A court of review is precluded from agitating .questions which were propounded, considered, and decided on a previous review; the decisions agree that, as a general rule, when an appellate court passes upon a question and remands the cause for further proceedings, the question there settled becomes the daw of the case’ upon a subsequent appeal; the only mode for reviewing the decision on the prior appeal being by a motion for a rehearing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 22 Wash. 2d 250 - Gange Lumber Co. v. Rowley