Zini v. Perciful’s Empirical Analysis

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28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is impossible for us to consider the appellants’ contentions, because counsel have not provided us either with an exact quotation of the instrument in question or with an abstract of it. We have no idea how it reads. We are referred by the appellants to Exhibit 2 in the transcript, but for a hundred years we have pointed out, repeatedly, that there being only one transcript it is impractical for all members of the court to examine it, and we will not do so. An early case, among scores of such cases, is Shorter University v. Franklin, 75 Ark. 571 , 88 S.W. 974 . There we noted, in 1905, that the rule (now Rule 9) had been promulgated twenty years earlier. Accordingly, we affirm pursuant to Rule 9(d).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hunter v. Williams