Rutland v. Corley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... the statute authorizing the penalty for cutting trees is highly penal and must be strictly construed. This Court has always been cautious in the infliction of the statutory penalty and will allow it only where the facts are well proved and where the testimony shows the trespass to have been wilfull, or the negligence so gross, or the indifference so real, or the lack of good faith so evident, as to be tantamount to wilfulness... .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 485 So. 2d 1034 - Nichols v. Stacks · 490 So. 2d 1201 - Grisham v. Hinton