Santen v. Tuthill’s Empirical Analysis

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25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]here master and servant are sued together in tort, and the master's liability, if any, is solely dependent on the servant's conduct, a verdict for the servant necessarily exonerates the master.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shutler v. Augusta Health Care for Women · Hughes v. Doe

2. “added a phrase that McGarry would testify 'about the accuracy of the Preliminary Breath Test Device and how much Vodka, Ingested Five Hours Earlier, would be Required to Result in a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.209 Grams Per Liter of Breath in a person the Weight and Gender of Wilfong.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henderson v. Cook, Trustee for Noojin

3. “[s]ince an appeal under Code § 16.1-132 `annuls or wipes out' a guilty plea entered in district court, [thus] there no longer exists a guilty plea that, otherwise, would be admissible in a subsequent civil proceeding under the provisions of Code § 8.01-418.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baker v. Elmendorf