Harkness v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Hence the judgment of the court below, in so far as it declares the appellee, Porter, the owner of the fee in an undivided half of the land, is in direct conflict with the opinion of this court on the former appeal, which opinion must be regarded as the law in this case and will he followed by us in determining the same questions of title presented for decision by the present appeal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Edwards