Kopfler v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “A judge serving on the effective date of this constitution [Judge Levy] shall serve through December thirtyfirst of the last year of his term or, if the last year of his term is not in the year of a regular congressional election, then through December thirty-first of the following year....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Levy