Snell v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““We place the decision of the case upon the principle that the negligence of the plaintiff to follow up his lien, by causing process to issue to subject the property attached to the satisfaction of his judgment, must be treated as an abandonment of the lien.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clark & Jones, Inc. v. American Mut. Liability Ins.