The Imogene M. Terry’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““Sec. 483. Amendments may be allowed by the Court at any Time. — As has been before remarked, causes in admiralty must be heard and decided according to the allegations of the parties, and the proofs under them; and it has always been the practice of the American Admiralty Courts to allow every facility to the parties, to place fully before the court their whole case, and to enable the court to administer substantial justice between the parties, without circuity of action, or turning around in court, and never to allow a party to overcome his adversary by the man-traps and spring-guns of covert chicanery, or by the surprises and technicalities of mere pleading or practice. Therefore, on proper cause shown, omissions and deficiencies in pleadings may be supplied, and errors and mistakes in practice, in matters of substance, as well as of form, may be corrected at any stage of the proceedings, for the furtherance of justice. Where merits clearly appear on the record, it is the settled practice in admiralty not to dismiss the libel, but to allow the party to assert his rights in a new allegation. The whole subject rests entirely in the discretion of the court, as well in relation to the relief to be granted, as to the terms on which it shall be granted. Amendments may be made on application to the court at any time, as well after as before decree; arid at any time before the final decree new counts or articles may be added, and new and supplementary allegations may be filed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graham v. Oregon R. & Nav. Co.