Johnston v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellate jurisdiction presupposes either a final decree or an adjudication of the principles of a cause. The latter may be interlocutory.... Until a final decree, or one adjudicating the principles of the cause, is properly brought before this [C]ourt, it is without power to exert its appellate jurisdiction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Comcast of Chesterfield County, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors