Wiley v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““While it is true that his complaint alleged this personal type of damage under two separate specifications which we have referred to above under the respective letters (c) and (e), yet there was no intrinsic reason for so separating them, nor were they essentially severable either in their origin or in their effect. While, therefore, we do not doubt the correctness of the principle invoked that where damages of an . essentially severable character are specially pleaded the findings should follow the pleadings, it does not seem to us that the mere circumstance that in plaintiff’s pleadings an effort was made to break up this essentially single type of damage into two elements required the court to follow that course.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hougham v. Eyherabide