Nethers v. Nethers’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Ross Cutter & Silo Co. v. Rutherford, 157 Va. 674 , 161 S. E. 898 , it was held that testimony introduced ore terms before a chancery court is no more a part of the record than is evidence introduced in a common-law case, unless it is reduced to writing and made a part of the record, either by decree duly entered or by certificate signed by the judge earmarking and identifying it. It was stated in that case, and held in Owen v. Owen, 157 Va. 580 , 162 S. E. 46 , that a court of chancery, in the absence of statute, has no more power to add to the record after it has lost jurisdiction of a cause than has a court of law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carper v. Nesbit