Gilbert v. Satterlee’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““This being an action for false imprisonment, the only inquiry is whether the deposition in pursuance of which the warrant was issued was sufficient to give the justice jurisdiction. If jurisdiction was conferred to issue the warrant, this action is not maintainable, even though the justice may have erred in judgment, or if in the subsequent proceedings before him, it may have transpired that no crime had in fact been committed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riegel v. Hygrade Seed Co.