Pinckney v. Hagerman’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That the court had power over its own. process, to vacate it and set it aside, at any stage of the proceedings under it, cannot be questioned. And it is of no consequence to the question under consideration on what evidence or grounds the court proceeded in setting aside the execution, and discharging the prisoner under it On whatever ground it was made, the sheriff was bound to obey the order, and is therefore justified in obeying it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perry v. Kent