Allen v. Funchess’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the findings of fact have been concurred in by all the commissioners in attendance, provided as many as three of the commissioners are and have been in attendance, the facts shall not be subject to review on appeal, and the bill of exceptions shall not set up the evidence upon which the facts have been determined... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 380 So. 2d 1278 - Berryhill v. Smith

2. “[h]ad these boxes been sealed, as required by the statute, it is entirely probable that this unfortunate controversy would never have proceeded to the course of an expensive litigation with its residue of doubts which will inevitably linger and rankle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 907 So. 2d 307 - Waters v. Gnemi

3. “"In such a case the only recourse by an appellant would be to show that there was either (1) no evidence whatever to sustain the findings, or (2) what would amount to the same thing, that there was no substantial evidence in support of the findings."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 441 So. 2d 1322 - Riley v. Clayton