Vittitow v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““Ordinarily, errors have been held to be harmless or nonprejudicial where they were not responsible for the appealing party having lost what he contends on appeal he should have attained. A typical case is one where the jury finds for the defendant * * *. In such a case, the errors are not responsible for the plaintiff failing to obtain the particular relief he seeks on appeal, namely, a recovery in some amount.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Johnson