Watson v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The proposition that a license can not be given in evidence under the general denial is so firmly settled as to need no citation of authority to sustain it. Boltz v. Smith, 3 Ind. App. 43 ; Chase v. Long, 44 Ind. 427 ; Snowden v. Wilas, 19 Ind. 10 , 81 Am. Dec. 370 . In the case at bar evidence of the transaction and the license had been introduced by both parties to the action, without objection. As held in numerous cases, the filing of additional pleadings is largely within the discretion of the trial court; but when the justice of the case clearly requires that leave should be granted, it is error to refuse. Chicago, etc. R. Co. v. Jones, 103 Ind. 386 , [ 6 N. E. 8 ] ; Fargo v. Cutshaw, 12 Ind. App. 392 , [ 39 N. E. 532 ]. The additional paragraph of answer could not have prejudiced the rights of appellee. But if it had been to the disadvantage of appellee, the court would doubtless, upon proper application, have set aside the submission, and continued the cause at appellant’s costs.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 141 Ind. App. 126 - Hawke v. Maus