Spear v. . Atkinson’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. “If the plaintiffs therefore had surrendered the bill, even on the trial, they might have recovered upon the original consideration; for the taking of the note first, and then the bill, did not merge the original consideration, as a bond would have done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank v. Hollingsworth.