Forte v. Page’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “"* * * Judge Page was not assigned by the presiding judge to try it, but merely to hear and pass on an application for a preliminary injunction. These being the circumstances, it is evident that the judge treated the affidavit of prejudice as having been filed for the purpose of disqualifying him to act in the only matter before him and not in some distant matter such as the trial of the case, to which he had not been assigned. Rightly, as we have held, he refused to step aside, but proceeded to pass upon the question which had been submitted to him. By so doing he did not manifest an intention to participate further in the case." Forte v. Page , supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mursener v. Redding

2. “"`As used in this statute the phrase "before a hearing upon a motion or demurrer" means, and can only mean, the submission to the court for decision of a motion or demurrer, and it matters not whether the motion or demurrer is submitted upon oral or written argument or submitted without argument if argument is waived. * * *'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mursener v. Redding

3. “before a hearing upon a motion or demurrer”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mursener v. Redding