Halcomb v. Creech’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence that Brock’s original return is false is clear and convincing and the court erred in sustaining it-. Upon these basic errors the other parts of the court’s judgment, including the quieting of Wilson’s [the purchaser’s] alleged title, have been builded; hence all that is erroneous. The court will set aside the judgment appealed from and its default judgment of October 7, 1931, and everything done thereunder, and let the cause proceed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Halcomb v. Howard