Savage v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““A marketable title means a title free from reasonable doubt as to its goodness, and one of such a character as will reasonably assure an ordinarily prudent person freedom from litigation and peaceful enjoyment of the property. 5 Words and Phrases, First Series, p. 4388, and eases cited."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. Stern

2. ““Where a chancellor has considered conflicting evidence and has based his findings thereon, such findings are to be deemed presumptively correct, and these findings will not be reversed, save in the presence of an ob vious error of law, or a serious mistake of fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowmaster v. Carroll