Banks v. Manchester’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““It is in accordance with sound public policy, in a commonwealth where every person is presumed to know the law, to regard the authoritative expositions of the law by the regularly constituted judicial tribunals as public property, to be published freely by any one who may choose to publish them, and such publications may be of everything which is the work of the judges, including the syllabus and the statement of the ease, as well as the opinion. The copyright of the-volume does not interfere with such free publication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banks & Bros. v. West Publishing Co.

2. “The reporter shall secure a copyright, for the use of the State, for each volume of the reports so published ; and he shall receive such compensation for his services, not exceeding eighteen hundred 'dollars per year, during the time the Supreme Court Commission is in session; and at all other times not exceeding one thousand dollars yearly, payable out of the state treasury, in such instalments as the Supreme Court by order entered on its journal, directs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banks v. Manchester