Morse v. Barrows’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““With the defendant before him for the purpose, the justice had authority to correct the error by causing the true name to "be inserted in the writ (section 10, c. 65, Gen. St. 1878); and, the defendant having appeared before the justice to plead the misnomer, he was there for the purpose of whatever it was proper for the justice to do by reason thereof; for the purpose of correcting the error, as the justice was authorized to do when the true name was discovered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Red River Valley Cotton Co. v. J. W. Stalcup Mercantile Co.