Williamson v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. ““Where the matter in dispute is susceptible of accurate ascertainment, the case should not be prepared in such a way as to require the chancellor to guess at the rights of the parties. In the circumstances, we conclude that the chancellor should have refrained from deciding the question, and have called for evidence of a more persuasive and accurate character. Ordinarily, we remand equity cases with directions to enter judgment in conformity with the opinion. Here, however, we are confronted with the same situation that confronted the chancellor. The case has not been developed in such a way that a proper judgment may be pronounced.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ellis v. Darby Coal Company