Borntrager v. McCann’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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. “in a case tried by a court, sitting without a jury, it is assumed that the trial judge disregarded [any inadmissible evidence] and relied only upon competent evidence as the basis for his findings and judgment, unless it reasonably appears from the record that the incompetent evidence influenced the trial court in its decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Nooth