Musmanno v. Eldredge’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1990
most recently cited
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The order of this court in the Tribune case . . . held that there was nothing justiciable before us for decision, dismissed the petition without prejudice, and suggested that a proper test case might be presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacK Appeal
How this case has been treated — in progress
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