Gossett v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . Of course, where the services are unnecessary, or where the wife is able to pay for them, or where an allowance has been made for them, and probably where the wife is in the wrong, such an action could not be maintained. But this is not one of such cases. This case comes under the rule of requiring the husband to pay for necessaries furnished the wife where the husband without good cause has failed or refused to furnish them himself.” (pp. 342, 343.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chipp v. Murray

2. ““We do not think, however, that the bill of particulars is ■fatally defective in these respects, and especially not after verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff; and, when the question is raised for the first time in the Supreme Court, it will be presumed that what was defectively stated in the bill of particulars was sufficiently proved on the trial, and, as all lawyers know, strict formal pleadings are not required in a justice's court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stevens, Kennerly & Spragins Co. v. Dulaney