Turner v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““She admitted that he held a retainer from her, and was looking after her legal business in Spokane, and that she had consulted with him concerning the probabilities of such a suit, but she is positive in her assertion that she never authorized him to appear in the proceeding or waive the service of process upon her. There are circumstances shown by the record, however, which appear to put her memory at fault. The attorney who purported to represent her was an able and distinguished lawyer, who had enjoyed a large and varied practice, and who knew well- the effect upon the judgment had his appearance in the proceedings not been authorized. Pie died just prior to the trial, and we have not the benefit of his testimony, but his letters to the appellant, written just before and just after the decree, are in the record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tausick v. Tausick