Matthews v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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. “If the false suggestion had no influence, if the plaintiff[] . . . would have done the same thing . . . if such representation had not been made, then it was not a motive to the act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Ellis & Ellis