Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““For an assignment of error merely to state that the court erred in entering a specified order is customarily treated as sufficient in our practice, but it is not conducive to the best results. An assignment of error is in the nature of a declaration or complaint. It should state a case. “An appellate court should be liberal in not exacting too much nicety in the specifications of error assigned, and on the contrary the appellants should be generous in designating with a fair degree of certainty the specific grounds for reversal. See 2 Am. Jur., Sec. 694, et seq.” (Italics added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 9 Fla. Supp. 46 - Skrobick v. Pioneer Growers Cooperative