Hazen v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 11 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`In reviewing a judgment entered by a trial judge sitting without a jury we are limited by the rule laid down in Jones v. Eastern Michigan Motorbuses , 287 Mich. 619 . * * * This rule was recently summarized in Eagan v. Edwards , 294 Mich. 260 , by the following quotation from Vannett v. Michigan Public Service Co. , 289 Mich. 212 , 218 : *Page 410”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. King

2. “`This court has uniformly held that cases may be made by circumstantial evidence. This is not the adoption of the rule res ipsa loquitur , a rule not favored by this court. It has always been the rule of this jurisdiction that the jury should be permitted to draw legitimate inferences from the established facts.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. King

3. “clearly preponderates in the opposite direction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. King