Anderson v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““These papers, construed together, show, beyond question, a secret reservation to the grantor and one which the law says is illegal and one which obviously hindered and delayed the collection of these notes in question,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial State Savings Bank v. Bird

2. ““This conclusion, however, is not as important to us as it has been to counsel, by reason of the view we take of the facts. The burden of proof was on plaintiff to show his bona fides.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial State Savings Bank v. Bird

3. ““Under our view the question will not be very important in this case, but the question is here and should be answered,”—”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial State Savings Bank v. Bird