27 Cal. App. 414 - George v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis

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32 state decisions

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

1. ““Conceding that the plaintiff’s car was damaged by the breaking of certain parts thereof, such as the wheel, bed, top, and frame, it is nevertheless insisted the property was not destroyed. The word ‘ destroyed ’ is defined to be ‘to tear down, wrench apart, knock or pull to pieces.’ The effect of the collision was to render plaintiff’s automobile useless for the purpose for which it was intended, and, while not destroyed in the sense of being annihilated, it was, within the meaning of the word used in the statute, destroyed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnum v. Jackson

2. “The following persons cannot be witnesses: ... 3. Parties or assignors of parties to an action or proceeding, or persons in whose behalf an action or proceeding is prosecuted, against an executor or administrator upon a claim, or demand against the estate of a deceased person, as to any matter or fact occurring before the death of such deceased person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Norgard v. Estate of Norgard