Rhea v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Nothing herein shall be construed to require the docketing of a judgment or decree of a-United States court, or the filing of a transcript thereof, in any State office within the same county or the same parish in the State of Louisiana, in which the judgment or decree is rendered, in order that such judgment or decree may be a lien on any property within such county, if the clerk of the United States court be required by law to have a permanent' office and a judgment record open at all times for public inspection in such county or parish.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhea v. Smith