Bonner v. Ames’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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It will have been observed, in what has been stated heretofore, that the word ‘block’ has been employed as a unit of distance. . . . The word is a part of our common speech. It is not, it is true, a word of precise meaning, since we have short blocks and long blocks, just as we have short tons and long tons, but it is capable of precise definition in any .context should precision be material.” Bonner v. Ames, 356 Mich. 537 , 97 N.W.2d 87, 88 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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