Fowler v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case before this court the writ runs in the justice's name. There being no writ of the state to bring the defendant before the justice, all the proceedings in this case are void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Latimer v. Giles