McKnight v. Crinnion’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““In declaring that justices should conform to the rules governing actions of replevin in the circuit courts, the legislature obviously intended the rules for the time being. That whatever rules prevailed in the circuit court, at the time of beginning the proceedings in the justices’ courts, those rules should control the justices. It was not designed that the rule in the justices’ courts should be different from that in the circuit court, but that as often as the rule was changed for the circuit- courts, the justices should be-governed by it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Corkery v. Hinkle