Dravo v. Fabel’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “a party to the record of any civil proceeding in law or equity, or a person for whose immediate benefit such proceeding is prosecuted or defended, may be examined as if under cross-examination, at the instance of the adverso party, or any of them, and for that purpose may be, comp’elled, in the same manner, and subject to the same rules for examination as any other witness, to testify ; but the party calling for such examination shall not be concluded thereby, but may rebut it by counter-testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dravo v. Fabel