Sexton v. Baehr’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An action for the recovery of wages or money due for manual labor may be brought in the county in which such labor was performed; and when so brought the venue of such action shall not be changed to another county without the written consent of the plaintiff filed with the court.” (Italics supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowen v. Johnson

2. “* * In a revision a change in phraseology or punctuation is presumed to be intended to simplify the language of the prior act, not to change its meaning.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wangensteen v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.