Bob v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Supposing, then, that the plaintiff derived his title to freedom from the will alone, and entertaining the views just expressed in reference to the necessity of having the executor’s assent to the legacy of freedom before the slave emancipated can assert his right thereto in a court of law, and the plaintiff, in the case before us, having failed to prove such assent, or that two years after defendant’s administration of the estate of Crow, under the will, had expired at the time this suit was brought, we are constrained to hold that the first instruction given in the court below, at the instance of the defendant, was rightly given.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Farrell v. United States