The Folmina’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““That which we do now hold is that where facts have been found and stated to the Supreme Court as the basis for asking its instructions, this court will not, after those instructions have been obtained, re-examine upon the identical evidence already considered, controverted questions of fact which have been advisedly determined and, applying this rule to the present case, this court must decline to* accede to the contention of the appellee that it reconsider the question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A. B. Dick Co. v. Henry