Smith v. Woodleaf’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The plaintiff cannot create his right of action after suit brought. The question is whether when he commenced he had a cause of action; and if he did not, he must fail. He determines the time of commencing; and it would be strange if after commencing he could create a right of action which did not exist when he commenced, and enforce it against the defendant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tulsa Rig, Reel & Mfg. Co. v. Arnold