Wells v. Parrott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““ Absence from the State and having a fixed abode in another place, with the intention to remain permanently, at least for a time, for business or other purposes, will constitute non-residence, even if there be an intention to return at the expiration of the time of residence in the foreign State. Casual or transitory absence from the State will not constitute non-residence within the meaning of the attachment act. The absence must be so protracted as to amount to a prevention of legal remedy by ordinary process; and in determining whether one has ceased to be a resident it is important to know whether the purpose of the absence was such as to admit or require the acquisition of residence elsewhere.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jenks v. Rounds