McDonnell v. Harter’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““The plea of the general issue was regularly filed, and was never stricken from the files. On this state of the record the court assessed the damages as if upon a default. If the affidavit of merits, which was filed with the general issue, was insufficient, the plea should have been stricken from the files. "While it remained it was a bar to the action, until tried by a jury, or by the court with the consent of the parties in place of a jury, and found to be untrue.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dailey v. Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen