McAliley v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““The proper practice, when a defendant has rights upon grounds that formerly authorized the filing of a bill to restrain an action at law, which lie desires to oppose to a recovery in an action against him, is to interpose such rights by way of answer or counterclaim. He may in this way not only take advantage of them by way of defeating the plaintiff’s judgment, but may seek and obtain affirmative relief appropriate to the case thus made by him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eastern Building & Loan Ass'n of Syracuse v. Welling