Marshall v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The parties argue about where the burden of proof rested. That is not very material in this ease now. Much depended on what witnesses the trial judge believed and on what weight he attached to their testimony. If he believed appellee’s witnesses, and an examination of the record indicates he must have, this court cannot say the proof was insufficient to sustain the findings made.” (p. 44.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Anderson