Snyder v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “‘ ‘ It would serve no useful purpose to detail the testimony ... or to discuss the circumstances ... in order to show with whom the truth may rest . . . . ” “This case affords a classic application of the well recognized statement that the Judge, seeing the witnesses, is in a better position to decide the credibility than is an appellate court, which merely sees the words on the page.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ark. Valley Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Brinks · Sowards v. Sowards