Johnson v. Crispell’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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It was incumbent on the sheriff to proceed against any goods and chattels to be found within the county and belonging to either defendant and subject to execution, before resorting to the real estate. The statute enjoins this as a duty (2 Comp. Laws [1871], § 6107), and the common law will presume performance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Dissolution of Field Body Corp.