West v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

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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.

1. “the purpose of this article is to give the appellate court complete freedom to do justice on the record irrespective of whether a particular legal point or theory was made, argued, or passed on by the court below.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 390 So. 2d 842 - Hibernia Nat. Bank of New Orleans v. Bolleter

2. “[an] appellate court shall render any judgment which is just, legal, and proper upon the record on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 390 So. 2d 842 - Hibernia Nat. Bank of New Orleans v. Bolleter