Garner v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Thompson was engaged solely in the restaurant business. He was not engaged in the confectionery or cigar business. He was in no sense engaged in the business of buying and selling and dealing in goods, wares, or merchandise, and was clearly not within the bulk sales act. True, he purchased meat, vegetables, and other foodstuffs, and converted them into edible dishes, which he sold within the restaurant building, and he also prepared lunches, which were carried away and eaten elsewhere. That, however, does not transform the restaurant business into one of buying and selling and dealing in goods, wares or merchandise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 44 Wash. 2d 102 - Mill & Logging Supply Co. v. West Tenino Lumber Co.