Grimes v. Robitaille’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that Plaintiff E. W. Robitaille, do have and recover of and from the defendant Harlan Grimes the sum of two hundred ($200.00) Dollars as attorneys fee for the services rendered by Adams & McReynolds through and including the trial in the District Court of Houston County, Texas, and if an appeal is taken from this judgment to the Court of Civil Appeals at Galveston, that plaintiff have and recover of and from defendant the additional sum of two hundred and fifty ($250.00) Dollars as attorneys fee for the services of plaintiff’s attorney in such appeal, and if an application is filed in the Supreme Court of Texas for a writ of error that plaintiff have and recover of and from the defendant, Harlan Grimes, the additional sum of two hundred ($200.00) Dollars as attorneys fee for the services of plaintiff’s attorney upon such application for said writ; and if an application is made to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari, that plaintiff have and recover of .and from the defendant, the additional sum of four hundred ($400.00) Dollars as attorneys fee for the services of plaintiff’s attorney upon such application for such writ.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. Robitaille