Willard v. Dorr’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “no prescribed limits beyond which, in the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction, the courts of the United States [could] not take cognizance of suits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ivani Contracting Corporation v. City of New York

2. “presumptions ... which are equally fatal to a recovery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ivani Contracting Corporation v. City of New York