Black v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““The trips made by defendant in performing the character of transporta tion complained of were not ‘occasional or casual’ ones. On the contrary, such trips and the transportation complained of, were made.over a regular route, also. on schedule time, and were the same as those performed by plaintiffs under their permits to operate passenger buss-es along and over the same route. Therefore, the unauthorized acts of de-, fendant were in direct competition with plaintiff’s business, given them by their permits; whilst defendant was given no such privilege by his permits.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chauncey v. Kinnaird