Perez v. Meraux’s Empirical Analysis

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52 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘All those who minister in the temple of justice, from the highest to the lowest, should be above reproach and suspicion. None should serve at its altar whose conduct is at variance with his obligations.’ ” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Haggerty · 823 So. 2d 325 - In Re Hunter

2. ““Moreover, the evidence in the record unmistakably shows that the court over which 'the defendant judge presided was used in •obtaining illegal judgments of divorce and •annulment of marriages where, in a large 'number of instances, collusion and fraud 'were employed. We are not impressed with the protestations of the judge that he had no knowledge of these facts — in other words, his claim that advantage was taken of him by the attorneys and litigants in these cases — for it is difficult for us to understand just how the judge could sit and hear such a large number of cases in which ■so many irregularities are patent on the face of the record and the notes of evidence so scant, without at least having his suspicions aroused as to what was going ■on. Particularly is this true when as many as three of these cases were heard by him in a single day. Then, too, the striking similarity in the method employed in the handling of these cases by the four principal attorneys who are involved should, in our opinion, have placed him on his guard.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Reed

3. “* * * the universal rule is, as stated in 34 C.J. 153, that 'A default admits only what is well pleaded, and therefore in order to sustain a judgment by default, plaintiff's declaration, complaint, petition, or statement, of claim, must allege with clearness and certainty sufficient facts to constitute a good cause of action or show a right to recover.' See, also, 15 Ruling Case Law 605, Section 44.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doll v. Dearie