Burrows v. Stoddard’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Why make a demand, when the property had been forcibly taken away, and sold by the defendant, before any demand was necessary? The law never requires an unnecessary act to be done. The right of the plaintiff to recover, accrued, when the property was taken from him; nor could it be affected, by not having done an act, which, to say the least of it, would have been a useless one.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shurland Robin Demergue Bell v. Nutmeg Airways Corp.