Smith v. Smith’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. ““Mother says, ‘Israel, can thee let me have a little interest money on that note which I hold of thine?’ He said, ‘How much would thee like, mother?’ She said, ‘ Four or five dollars,’ and he gave her seven. He said, ‘Is that sufficient?’ She said, ‘It is for the present.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grissom v. Bull